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Cape May Dive Sites (8/8)

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Townsend's Inlet Artificial Reef

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USS Jacob Jones DD-130

Shipwreck USS Jacob Jones — In the Panama Canal locks, 1920.

Type:: shipwreck, destroyer, Wickes / Tattnall class, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1919, Camden NJ USA
Specs:: ( 314 x 31 ft ) 1211 gross tons, 145 crew
Sunk:: Saturday February 28, 1942
torpedoed by U-578 - 134 casualties
Depth:: 120 ft

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USS S-5 SS-110

Type:: shipwreck, submarine, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1920, Portsmouth Navy Yard, NH USA
Specs:: ( 231 x 21 ft ) 876 displacement tons, 37 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday September 1, 1920
flooded during test dive - no casualties
Depth:: 165 ft

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Varanger

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, Norway
Name:: A peninsula in north-east Norway ( a cold place )
also, an old Scandinavian term for "Viking"
Built:: 1925, Netherlands
Specs:: ( 470 x 60 ft ) 9305 gross tons, 40 crew
Sunk:: Sunday January 25, 1942
torpedoed by U-130 - no casualties
Depth:: 140 ft

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Wayne

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Specs:: 436 tons
Sunk:: Wednesday May 25, 1932
Depth:: 45 ft

wooden

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William B. Diggs

Type:: shipwreck, barge
Built:: 1918
Specs:: 1041 tons
Sunk:: Monday September 3, 1934
foundered - no casualties
Depth:: 42 ft

The Diggs was engaged in a salvage operation at the time of her loss and actually settled on top of another shipwreck, of unknown origin. The green blinker buoy for which it is known was removed after the wooden wreck was demolished in the 1970s. Also known as the "Green Blinker Wreck".

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YP-387

Sister *YP-389*, built in the same yard at the same time to the same specs

Type:: shipwreck, patrol boat, U.S. Navy, converted trawler
Built:: 1941, Quincy MA, USA, as Salem
Specs:: ( 102 x 22 ft ) 301 tons, 21 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday May 20, 1942
collision with collier Jason - 6 casualties
Depth:: 40 ft

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Cape May Dive Sites

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u08 - AWOIS 4600

H10284/88 -- OPR-C147-WH-88; AN OBSTRUCTION WAS FOUND WITH AN ESTIMATED DEPTH OF 33 FT; OBSTRUCTION IS 269M SW OF CHARTED POSITION OF THIS ITEM AND 81M SW OF POSITION OF ITEM 1571; EVALUATOR BELIEVES THAT THIS CONTACT IS THIS ITEM OR ITEM 4600; THERE ARE OTHER OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE VICINITY OF THE AWOIS ITEM THAT WERE LOCATED BY THE PRESENT SURVEY, BUT THIS IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AND HAS AN ESTIMATED HEIGHT THAT IS CLOSE TO THE CHARTED INFORMATION. (UPDATED MSD 6/91)

FE330SS/89 -- OPR-C147-HE-89; CONTACT #22 FROM SURVEY H-10284/88; DIVERS INVESTIGATION REVEALED THE REMAINS OF A LARGE WOODEN WRECK WHICH IS BADLY BROKEN UP, DETERIORATED, AND STREWN ABOUT THE BOTTOM; SEVERAL LARGE TIMBERS RISE AT ANGLES ABOVE THE GENERAL TREND OF THE WRECK; TIMBERS ARE MOST LIKELY THE RIBS FROM THE WRECK; LEADLINE LEAST DEPTH WAS TAKEN BY DIVERS ON THE AFTERMOST VERTICAL TIMBER; DUE TO THE DETERIORATED CONDITION OF WRECK, POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION IS NOT POSSIBLE; HOWEVER, DIVERS REPORTED THAT THE WRECKAGE WAS MORE LIKELY A BARGE THAN A WAR VESSEL (AWOIS ITEM 1571) (UPDATED MSD 6/91)

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