Historic vessel mysteriously sinks in NYC just days after schooner-turned-bar met similar fate

Oar you kidding?A historic vessel owned by a company that turns ships into floating restaurants mysteriously sank beneath Brooklyn waters — just days after a schooner-turned-bar met a similar fate.The Victory Chimes — the last surviving Chesapeake Ram schooner and a US National Historic Landmark — was discovered on the floor of the Henry Street Basin near Red Hook sometime Sunday.The 126-year-old boat’s giant masts were still sticking straight out of the polluted waters — directly next to those of the Pilot, which mysteriously sank in the middle of the night just days earlier July 1.The incidents came as other historic ships from across the globe converged in the connected New York Harbor over Fourth of July weekend for America’s 250th anniversary.

“I was in shock.I could not believe that after Pilot sinking — and all the attention on the issue — that more had not been done to ensure that Victory Chimes would not sink,” Brad Vogel, of the Gowanus Dredgers, told The Post.“It really felt like something had gone wrong here.

One vessel sinking, maybe it’s a fluke.A second vessel sinking — I don’t know,” Vogel, who reported the sinkings on social media, said.Both vessels are owned by Crew, which has turned numerous historic ships into floating restaurants throughout the city, including the Fireboat in Brooklyn Bridge Park and Grand Banks in Hudson River Park.The out-of-commission historic ships were being moored in the basin while awaiting restoration, and each of their wooden hulls had been visibly deteriorating, according to Vogel.“I all did tie back to what we had been somewhat worried about as we were paddling around in Henry Street Basin over the last three months, which is namely both vessels coming out of the winter just looked really rough,” he said.Pictures from May show long scrapes, decaying planks and extensive rusting along their flanks.

They also were both surrounded and presumably kept upright by long yellow floats, wh...