New Jersey Scuba Diving

Type:

shipwreck, freighter, USA, converted to barge

Built:

1918, Globe Shipbuilding, Superior WI, as Contoocook, later Elda

Specs:

( 251' x 43 ft ) 2344 gross tons

Sunk:

Monday March 18, 1946
foundered

GPS:

38°36.769' -74°56.878' (DNREC)

Depth:

60 ft

The Contoocook was built for the USSB, but was too late for WWI. Converted to barge Southern Sword in 1932, and sank with a full load of coal just outside of what would later become Delaware artificial reef #10.

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