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The wreck was visible in 1958, leading to speculation about its origins.
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O’Brien hunted up and down the Massachusetts coast during the war, the command said.
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buy canada goose jacket cheap The Maine Historic Preservation Commissiondeclared it an archaeological site. But adatabase searchof2,500 shipwrecks across the globe, from the Revolution to the nuclear age, did not return any records indicating it buy canada goose jacket cheap was a known American sloop, Navy Canada Goose Online history command spokeswoman Sandra Gall told canada goose gilet The Washington Post on Monday. buy canada goose jacket cheap
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There is apparently no canada goose clearance sale history or description of its captain or crew, or how it ended up on the bottom of Maine’s frigid waters. It canada goose factory sale could even be a hapless Royal Navy vessel, the victim of a rare Colonial victory.
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