NEW YORK — An international research collaboration led by the Museum of the City of New York and the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Netherlands) will undertake a comprehensive new study of ship timbers long believed to belong to the Tyger, a Dutch vessel commanded by famed explorer Adriaen Block. The Tyger was a ship captained by Block (1567–1627), a Dutch private trader and navigator renowned for his exploration of the American Northeast. Departing Amsterdam in 1613, the Tyger met an untimely end later that year when it was accidentally destroyed by fire while anchored in what is now New York Harbor. In 1916, during subway construction at the intersection of Greenwich and Dey Streets in Lower Manhattan, workers uncovered a charred keelson and three rib frames of a wooden ship. …In recent decades, however, there has been renewed interest in attribution. …The research will focus on identifying the wood species used in the timbers and determining through dendrochronological analysis when and where the trees were cut.