New Jersey Scuba Diving

Mary C

Mary C reef
Type:
artificial reef, barge, tank
Built:
1944, Bayonne NJ, as AOG-23 Ammonusuc
Specs:
( 240 x 38 ft )
Sponsor:
Eklof Marine Co., Fish America, Atlantic County Reef Society, Princeton Dive Club, Village Harbor Fishing Club, Fish Hawks
Sunk:
Tuesday October 30, 1990 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°37.168' -74°01.720'
Depth:
80 ft
Mary C reef
Side-scan sonar image, showing a great deal of detail

AOG-23 Ammonusuc

Mary C reef

Built in 1944, by East Coast Shipyards Incorporated of Bayonne, New Jersey ( hull #5 ) as the Ammonusuc ( design number USMC #1520, Mettawee class, ) a T-1 tanker for the United States Navy. T-1 tankers were small product carriers, designed to carry gasoline. Almost all of them went to either the US Navy, as AOGs, or to Britain, for service in a similar role. Many were under construction at the end of the war, and were sold immediately. This unit entered service on May 19th, 1944, and was designated as AOG-23.

Mary C reef

In 1948, she was sold and renamed Providence. In 1962, the unit was acquired by Texaco Marine Company Incorporated of Beaumont, Texas, where she was lengthened, and renamed Texaco Providence. In 1968, she was acquired by the Reinauer Transportation Companies of Staten Island, New York, and renamed Dean Reinauer.

In 1969, she was burned up and declared a constructive total loss. In 1970, she was converted to a tank barge at the Caddell's Dry Dock Company in Staten Island, New York, and renamed BFT No. 1. Assigned to the Reinauer Transportation Company subsidiary Boston Fuel Transportation Company of Boston, Massachusetts.

The barge was then acquired by a Norfolk, Virginia-based owner, renamed Mary C, and converted to carry sludge. Then acquired by Eklof Marine Corporation of Staten Island, New York, and stripped for spare parts.

Ammonusuc was sister to AOG-33 Ochlockonee ( Vincent Tibbetts )

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Warship

A number of small warships are sunk in New Jersey and New York waters.

subchaser (model)

A subchaser was a small coastal patrol vessel of World War I or II. Subchasers were lightly armed and even more lightly constructed, mostly out of plywood, powered by two diesel (WWII) or three gasoline (WWI) engines. Roughly the same design was used in both wars - 110 ft long, about 100 tons. Almost a thousand were built over both World Wars, and several are lost in the waters around this area. Many private yachts and some larger fishing trawlers were converted to perform this function also, like the Tarantula and the Moonstone. Conversely, some subchasers were converted to other duties after the war, such as the Bronx Queen, pictured below in military trim. Real subchasers were designated SC-, while converted yachts were designated SP-, PY- ( patrol yacht ) or PYc ( patrol yacht - coastal. )

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