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| Tango01 | 28 May 2016 4:14 p.m. PST |
…Timbers From HMS Namur . "On Thursday, the Chatham Historic Dockyard opened its new exhibit "Command of the Oceans" to the public. The centerpiece of the display are timbers from the 90-gun second-rate ship of the line, HMS Namur. The ship was built in the Chatham dockyard in 1756 and perhaps more importantly, also scrapped in the dockyard in 1833. At some point, some of her timbers were covered by the floorboards of a wheelwright's workshop. In 1995, roughly 10% of the timbers of a ship were found beneath six layers of floorboards. After more than a decade of investigation, the frames were identified in 2012 as belonging to HMS Namur. The discovery of the timbers from the Namur is described on the dockyard website as "the single most important warship discovery in Northern Europe since that of the MARY ROSE."…"
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