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Tennyson

Type:: shipwreck, schooner barge, USA ( formerly a clipper )
Built:: 1864, Bath ME USA, as Ocean Signal
Specs:: ( 187 x 38 ft ) 1265 gross tons, 4 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday January 26, 1898
foundered in storm - no survivors
Depth:: 110 ft

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Montauk Inlet

Montauk Inlet

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Thames

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1885, USA
Specs:: ( 55 ft )
Sunk:: autumn 1973; foundered - no casualties
Depth:: 100 ft

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Olinda

Shipwreck Olinda

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, Portugal
Built:: 1887, England
Specs:: ( 250 x 36 ft ) 1479 gross tons
Sunk:: Tuesday June 11, 1895
ran aground on Fisher's Island - no casualties
Depth:: 20 ft

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Atlantic

Shipwreck Atlantic

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, USA
Built:: May 1846, New York NY USA
Specs:: ( 320 x 36 ft ) 1112 gross tons, 75 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Friday November 26, 1846
boiler explosion; then grounded during storm on Fisher's Island - 45 casualties
Depth:: 20 ft

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John A. Downs

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Specs:: ( 113 ft ) 8 crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 3, 1985
collision with one of its own barges - no casualties
Depth:: 230 ft

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ShipBuildingHistory.com

July 15, 2022

ShipBuildingHistory.com is a resource that I have often used to look up many of the reefs and a few of the wrecks in this website. I recently sent in an update, and received a notice that the author had passed away. The next thing that usually happens in these cases is that the website disappears when the hosting goes unpaid, so I immediately grabbed a copy for myself.

That's when I found that the original site was almost a terabyte in size, and 95% of that was formatting. So I cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and added some navigation structures and other niceties that you would expect. Then I posted my copy as a sub-site here:

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