New Jersey Scuba Diving

Chesapeake

Chesapeake was the largest oyster dredge boat built on the Chesapeake Bay.
Type:
shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:
1936, Johnson Marine Railway, Crittenden VA USA
Specs:
( 93 x 25 ft ) 113 gross tons
Sunk:
early 1980s, burned, no casualties
Depth:
She could pull four dredges at once and carry as much as 5,000 bushels of oysters.

Chesapeake was built very heavily with 6x9” oak frames and 3” thick Georgia yellow pine planking. Chesapeake worked on the Chesapeake Bay until 1979 when she was sold to a company in Cape May New Jersey to work the mackerel fishery.

The shallow round bottom and low straight bow must have been uncomfortable on the open ocean.

Photographs courtesy of Richard Miles

Photos from USCG helicopter (crew was already rescued by another boat)
The wheelhouse is gone, smoke pouring from the crew cabin in the bow.

location probable
234599
IMO 7100407

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