Bay Tide

Delaware Artificial Reef #11
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat
Built:
1958, Gulfport Shipbuilding, Port Arthur, TX, as Margaret C
Specs:
( 110 ft )
Sunk:
Tuesday Jan 30, 2009 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:
38°40.540' -74°43.957'
Delaware Artificial Reef #11

Built in 1958, by Gulfport Shipbuilding of Port Arthur, Texas ( hull #525 ) as the Margaret C. for the A.L. Mechling Barge Lines of Joliet, Illinois. In 1978, the tug was acquired by the Crescent Towing and Salvage Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, and renamed Jason Smith. In 2000, she was acquired by Robbins Maritime Incorporated of Norfolk, Virginia, where she was renamed Bay Tide. She was a single screw tug, rated at 1,800 horsepower.

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Delaware Artificial Reef #11
Delaware Artificial Reef #11

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Horseshoe Crab

Horseshoe Crabs Limulus polyphemus are extremely common in the rivers and bays of this area. They are actually more closely related to spiders than to the other crustaceans on this page. In fact, technically they are not crustaceans at all. Despite their fierce-looking array of claws and spines, they are completely harmless.

They are also completely inedible - not even the native Indians would eat them except in the direst emergency. They are nonetheless threatened by man since vast numbers are collected commercially for fertilizer, bait, and other uses. Horseshoe Crabs are found from the water's edge down to 75 feet.