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barges - Moriches Artificial Reef

190 ft barge

Type:: artificial reef, barges
Depth:: 70 - 75 ft

Name	Description	Sunk	GPS
Jean Elizabeth	190 ft steel	1995	40°43.500' -72°46.482'
	60 ft steel	1995	40°43.558' -72°46.340'
#335	80 ft steel	Friday Nov 12, 1999	40°43.514' -72°46.309'
CFD	100 ft steel	Thursday Feb 8, 2001	40°43.476' -72°46.343'
"Pump Boat"	25 ft steel	Sunday Oct 14, 2018	40°43.464' -72°46.601'
Self-Propelled Scow #56	50 ft steel	Sunday Oct 14, 2018	40°43.453' -72°46.612'

"Pump Boat" - looks like a barge to me

Self-Propelled Scow

110' barge

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Moriches Artificial Reef

Moriches Artificial Reef (historical)

2.4 nautical miles south of Moriches Inlet, 0.54 sq miles
Depth: 70 - 75 ft

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Rockaway Belle (US Army T-1)

At Point Pleasant, 1981

Rockaway Belle is listed as Army tug-transport T-1, built by Simms Brothers, Dorchester MA, 1942. 'T-boats' were 65-foot, 45 ton diesel-powered, passenger-cargo boats that doubled as harbor tugs. 170 of them were constructed during WWII, and many more afterwards. From 1940 through 1951 all T-Boats were built of wood, thereafter steel. Rockaway Belle was T-1 of the T-1 class, sold as surplus in 1947.

Rockaway Belle sank some time after 1977, there is a record of her active then.

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