Barges (9/10)

barge beached
Notice the blocky shape and structure of this stranded but otherwise typical old wooden barge. Barges usually have minimal crews, to tend the lines.

A barge is a vessel that does not have its own means of propulsion ( usually. ) Barges are towed or pushed from place to place by tugboats, or anchored in place to serve as temporary work platforms, floating docks, or storage. Some barges are self-propelled, in a limited way. These are known as scows, and their limited propulsive power restricts them to protected waters without the assistance of a tugboat.

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Swensen Barge reef
The towboat Heavy Metal is now sunk on the Townsends Inlet Reef.
Type:
artificial reef, barge
Built:
1970
Specs:
( 50 x 16 ft )
Sunk:
Friday June 27, 2003 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°03.585' -73°59.391'
Depth:
80 ft

Swenson barges I & II reefs
Swenson Barge I
Type:
artificial reef, barge
Specs:
( 130 x 30 ft )
Sponsor:
Shore Dock Company Inc.
Sunk:
I - Friday July 25, 1986
II - Wednesday September 16, 1987 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°07.305' -73°56.885'

Tuna Sub reef
Type:
artificial reef, barge
Built:
circa 1990, NY USA
Specs:
( 42 x 22 ft )
Sponsor:
Forked River Tuna Club
Sunk:
Tuesday May 21, 2002 - Barnegat Light Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°45.973' -74°01.459'

AWOIS 12966:

H10675/96-97 -- OPR-C399-RU; 200% SIDE-SCAN SONAR LOCATED A LARGE RECTANGULAR, UNCHARTED OBSTRUCTION. DIVERS DESCRIBE A BARGE WITH SURROUNDING SCOUR. BARGE RELIEF IN SCOUR IS 2.4 METERS (8 FEET) BUT NEARLY LEVEL WITH THE BOTTOM. LD OF 8.1 METERS (26 FEET) (ENT 12/23/04, SJV)


NM22/46 -- DERRICK BARGE WRECK LIGHTED BUOY 3, BLACK, QK FL GREEN, ESTABLISHED IN 62 FT., 1.75 MILES, 63 DEG. FROM SCOTLAND LIGHT VESSEL. BUOY LOCATED 200 FEET EAST OF SUNKEN WRECK WHICH LIES IN A SE-NW DIRECTION.

H10224/86 -- OPR-C121-WH-86; MAIN SCHEME HYDROGRAPHY AND SIDE-SCAN SONAR INVESTIGATION REVEALED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A WRECK IN FOUR PIECES 447M SW OF WRECK; FOUR DIVES WERE PERFORMED IN 1987; FOUND A BARGE, APPROXIMATELY 50 X 120 FT WITH A PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH OF 63 FT; 0-5 FT VISIBILITY; A STRUCTURE SIMILAR TO A DERRICK CRANE WAS FOUND; HYDROGRAPHER AND EVALUATOR RECOMMENDED DELETING CHARTED SYMBOL AND ADDING 63 WK AS SHOWN ON PRESENT SURVEY. (UPDATED MSD 4/91)

24 NO. 1350; BARGE, SUNK 5/30/46; POS. ACCURACY WITHIN 1 MILE;


H10224/86 -- OPR-C121-WH-86; WHILE INVESTIGATING ITEM 751, AN AREA WITH NUMEROUS SIDE-SCAN SONAR CONTACT WAS FOUND AND DEVELOPED USING SIDE-SCAN AND ECHO SOUNDER; DIVER INVESTIGATION DETERMINED LIMITS OF SITE, NATURE OF WRECKAGE, AND LOCATION OF THE LEAST DEPTH; SITE WAS ORIENTED NORTHEAST-SOUTHWEST; CONSISTS MOSTLY OF SHIPYARD DEBRIS IN THE FORM OF HEAT EXCHANGERS, BUCKLED DECK PLATING, TWISTED ANGLE IRON, WOODEN RIBS, AND PIPING OF VARIOUS LENGTHS AND SIZES; THE NORTHEAST END OF THE SITE CONSISTED OF A BARGE LYING IN A NORTHWEST-SOUTHEAST DIRECTION WITH THE BOW OF THE BARGE DEFINING THE SOUTHEAST WALL OF THE SITE; THE NORTHWEST END OF THE BARGE, THE STERN, WAS COVERED WITH METAL DEBRIS, HAWSER LINES, AND TRAWLER NETTING; DIVERS CONCLUDED THAT THIS SITE IS THE WRECK OF A BARGE THAT WAS FILLED WITH SHIPYARD SCRAP IRON AND DEBRIS; PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH OF 50 FT. (ENTERED MSD 4/91)


Waldorf reef
Type:
artificial reef, barge, crane
Specs:
( 110 ft )
Sponsor:
Caldwell's Diving Company
Sunk:
Friday December 3 1999 - Little Egg Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°28.780' -74°11.084'




Mud Hole

  1. Barge #10
  2. 120 Wreck
  3. 3 Sisters
  4. 3/4 Tug
  5. 59-Pounder
  6. Ambrose Buoy
  7. A Street - Shark River
  8. Acara
  9. Across
  10. Adele
  11. Ajace
  12. Alex Mac
  13. Allenhurst Jetty
  14. Anastasia
  15. Antioch
  16. Arnoff
  17. Arundo
  18. Asfalto
  19. Aurora
  20. Ayuruoca
  21. BA Wreck
  22. Shark River - Back Bay
  23. Balaena
  24. Bald Eagle
  25. BD1738
  26. USS Benson
  27. Beth Dee Bob
  28. Blue Boy
  29. Bonanza
  30. Bronx Queen
  31. Brunette
  32. Bug Light
  33. Burnside
  34. Charles Dunlap
  35. Cecilia M Dunlap
  36. Cornelius Grinnell
  37. Catherine Jackson
  38. Chauncy Jerome
  39. Cornelia Soule
  40. Cadet
  41. Capt Smitty
  42. Catamount
  43. Charlemagne Tower
  44. Choapa
  45. clam boat
  46. coal (Lido)
  47. Continent
  48. crane barge
  49. Creole
  50. Daghestan
  51. Delaware
  52. Dragger
  53. drydock
  54. Dryland
  55. Edwin Duke / Stone Barge
  56. dump
  57. Duncan
  58. Edmund Phinney
  59. East Rockaway Inlet
  60. Ed's Schooner
  61. Elberon Rocks
  62. Emerald / USS Hibiscus
  63. Eureka
  64. Francis A Perkins
  65. FF Clain
  66. Finance
  67. Fort Victoria
  68. Gassoon
  69. German
  70. Lady Gertrude
  71. GL78
  72. Glen II
  73. Glory Wreck
  74. I.P. Goulandris
  75. Granite Wreck
  76. Gulftrade (stern)
  77. Gypsy
  78. Horseshoe Cove
  79. Alexander Hamilton
  80. Hankins (Big)
  81. Hankins (Offshore)
  82. Hankins 3
  83. Happy Days
  84. Cornelius Hargraves
  85. Harvey's Schooner
  86. Howard
  87. Iberia
  88. Ida K
  89. Immaculata
  90. Inshore Schooner
  91. Irene/Truro
  92. Irma C
  93. John Minturn
  94. Jack I
  95. Joan La Rie III
  96. Jones Inlet
  97. Jones Tug
  98. Kenosha
  99. Klondike Rocks
  100. Lizzie H. Brayton
  101. Lana Carol
  102. Larsen
  103. Lavallette Wreck
  104. Leon Walter
  105. Lillian
  106. Lizzie D
  107. Long Branch locomotives
  108. Logwood
  109. H.W. Long
  110. Macedonia
  111. Mahogany
  112. Malta
  113. Manasquan Inlet
  114. Margaret
  115. Marion
  116. Maurice Tracy
  117. Meta
  118. Middle Barge
  119. Mistletoe
  120. R.C. Mohawk
  121. Mohawk
  122. Manasquan Wreck
  123. Nautilus
  124. Navesink River
  125. Northeast Sailor
  126. New Reef
  127. New Deal
  128. New Era
  129. Old Yankee
  130. Olsen
  131. HMS Pentland Firth
  132. Park City
  133. Long Branch Pier Rubble
  134. Pinta
  135. Pipe Barge
  136. Pliny
  137. Plymouth
  138. Pocopson
  139. Princess Anne
  140. Ruth Shaw
  141. Robert A Snow
  142. Ramos
  143. Ranger
  144. Relief Lightship
  145. Rickseckers
  146. Ridge Schooner
  147. Riggy
  148. Rjukan
  149. Rockaway Inlet
  150. Rockaway Belle
  151. Roda
  152. Roy's barge
  153. Manasquan River Railroad Bridge
  154. Rudder Wreck - Pocono
  155. Rump
  156. Rusland / Adonis
  157. Scotland Buoy
  158. Sandy Hook Pilot Boat
  159. SC-209
  160. SC-60
  161. Sea Girt Inlet
  162. Sea Girt Wreck
  163. Sea Hag
  164. Seaside Crane Barge
  165. Shark River Inlet
  166. Shrewsbury Rocks
  167. Spring Lake Sailor
  168. Steel Wreck
  169. Stolt Dagali
  170. Southwest Mohawk
  171. Sylvanus
  172. Tampa III
  173. USS Tarantula
  174. Thurmond
  175. Tolten
  176. Train Wheel
  177. USS Turner
  178. AWOIS 8087
  179. AWOIS 8097
  180. u11
  181. AWOIS 7509
  182. AWOIS 7932
  183. AWOIS 9768
  184. AWOIS 12966/11422
  185. AWOIS 1609
  186. AWOIS 8084
  187. AWOIS 7940
  188. AWOIS 7938
  189. AWOIS 8076
  190. AWOIS 4600
  191. AWOIS 8075
  192. Valerie E
  193. Vega
  194. Vivian
  195. Vizcaya
  196. Warrior
  197. Western World
  198. Edward W Winslow
  199. Yankee (G+D)

Deep and dark, the Mud Hole is the Hudson River's channel from a time when the oceans were much lower. Today it collects all the silt and sediment that the river carries out to the sea, making it a very fertile fishing ground, frequented by pelagic fishes and sharks. The contour shown on the chart is not any particular depth, but do give an idea of the location.