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Show SHIP 149 TEAKS OLD. Speaking of the life of ships the other oth-er day, George F. Sproule. secretary of the board of port wardens, said about the oldest vessel he knows of is the True Love, which, if she Is afloat today. to-day. Is 149 j-ears old. The True Love was built In this city In 1764. and though she was only ninety-six feet and eight Inches long and of twenty-six feet beam, she was the largest ship that had been in these waters wa-ters up to that time. She sailed from this port In 1765 and did not return until un-til 1873. when she was 109 years old. She came In with a load of cryolite from Ivlgtut, Greenland. Then she sailed again, and was no longer heard of until discovered In 1S99 in the Thames river. England, where, shorn of her glory, she was and possibly still Is doing service as a coal barge. There was a proposal among shipping ship-ping men here to purchase her and bring her over as a relic of bygone days and honest workmanship, but it never came to anything. Philadelphia Record. |