America’s oldest warship, sunk in 1776, is getting a 250th-birthday makeover.

Conservator Angela Paola is lying on her back under the 16-tonne gunboat, picking debris from between its nearly 250-year-old planks. She is wearing blue surgical gloves, grimy white overalls, and a half-face respirator.

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