Inside the Smithsonian’s work to save Lake Champlain’s most famous shipwreck

Inside the Smithsonian’s work to save Lake Champlain’s most famous shipwreck

Conservators working on the gunboat Philadelphia at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in recent years took to marking with colored discs spots on the floor where the ship was shedding flakes from its wood structure. The floor is covered with those markers, Jennifer Jones, curator of the Philadelphia, said during a presentation Thursday at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s fifth annual virtual archaeology conference.  The shi…