Exploring your surroundings can be the best way to discover things you don’t know about and uncover the past. But it’s not everyday you come upon a 110-year-old shipwreck chilling in the middle of an Ohio River tributary.
To see the incredible ship and learn more about its past, scroll below:
A kayaker and friends were paddling around when they found a very old shipwreck in the Ohio River.
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They decided to look around the ship and see what was on it.
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Despite its age, it was able to support the kayakers’ weight.
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Nature was doing its best to take over the ship with plant life.
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Machinery that powered the engines were still on the ship.
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The ship looked as though it had been abandoned for several years.
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The ship actually has a very colorful past. It was originally used as a sight-seeing ferry in NYC.
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Later, it was used to fight in both World Wars.
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Thomas Edison used the vessel to test our communications inventions.
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It also appeared in Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach” music video. Random.
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In the later part of the 1980’s, the ship was retired and send to a tributary where it hasn’t moved.
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Even the original rope is still attached to the ship.
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You can still find it today, rusting away but don’t expect any warm welcomes. Trespassers have been known to be chased out.
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Whoa, I’m not sure that I would have explored the ship if I saw it. It looks a little too scary. Kudos to the trespass- I mean, kayakers – for the great pictures.
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