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Cornelius Hargraves

Shipwreck Cornelius Hargraves

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1889, H.M. Bean, Camden ME, USA
Specs:: ( 211 x 45 ft ) 1332 gross tons, 10 crew
Sunk:: Saturday October 30, 1890
collision with steamer Vizcaya - no casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

Shipwreck Cornelius Hargraves

A typical wooden sailing ship wreck, with three parallel walls, machinery pile at one end, and odds & ends in-between.

Shipwreck Cornelius Hargraves — The steam-powered anchor winch

Shipwreck Cornelius Hargraves — A bit lies in the middle of the wreck

Shipwreck Cornelius Hargraves — A pair of wheels

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Vizcaya

Shipwreck Vizcaya

Type:: shipwreck, steamer, Spain
Name:: Vizcaya is a Basque province in northern Spain. The Basques are a fiercely independent seafaring people of unknown origin.
Built:: 1872, England, as Santander
Specs:: ( 287 x 38 ft ) 2458 gross tons, 103 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Saturday October 30, 1890
collision with schooner Cornelius Hargraves - 60 casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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Snails

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These creatures are all of the order Gastropoda - having a single, often coiled, shell, as opposed to the bivalves, which have two matching shells. Most snails are hermaphroditic. Also, most snails have a right-hand twist to the shell, although there are exceptions.

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X-ray image of a Channeled Whelk, showing internal structure.

Nudibranchs are a form of snail that has lost its shell, while Corollas and Sea Butterflies are snails that have abandoned not just their shells, but the snail-like existence entirely, swimming up into the water column as plankton.

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