Ada Adelia
- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1870s ?
- Specs:
- ( 65 x 20 ft )
- Sponsor:
- Adelia Inc. & Andy Applegate
- Sunk:
- Friday Oct 11, 1991 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 39°15.500' -74°13.880'
- Depth:
- 85 ft
This partially intact wood hull from the 1800s is probably the oldest vessel sunk in the New Jersey Reef Program and one of the only wooden ones as well. It has been described as a "Civil War stone barge" that was later adapted to fishing and clam dredging. The construction was massive - a double course of 2" oak planks on the hull, with 8"x16" deck beams. For reefing, the deck was covered with a layer of concrete ballast. Despite all this, within a year the vessel broke up completely on the bottom. This and other experiences with wooden vessels eventually led the Reef Program to proscribe wood as reef material.
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