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Texas Tower TT-4

Type:: collapsed radar platform, USAF
Built:: 1955, Portland ME USA
Specs:: ( 67 ft above water) 6000 tons, 14 crew (minimum)
Sunk:: Sunday January 15, 1961
storm/structural failure/design deficiency - no survivors
GPS:: 39°47'56.43" -72°40'08.00" (US Navy 2004)
Depth:: 180 ft, starts at 110 ft

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Texel

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Name:: Texel is the easternmost of the Frisian islands off the coast of Holland, which are similar to our own barrier islands.
Built:: 1913, Denmark
Specs:: ( 331 x 48 ft ) 3220 gross tons, 36 crew
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
bombed by U-151 - no casualties
Depth:: 230 ft

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Thomas Hebert

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat
Built:: 1975, Orange TX USA
Specs:: ( 89 x 27 ft ) 99 tons, 7 crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 7, 1993
cause unknown - two survivors
Depth:: 140 ft

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U-550

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Built:: 1942, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Sunk:: Saturday April 16, 1944
by depth charges and gunfire from destroyer escorts USS Gandy, USS Joyce and USS Peterson after torpedoing tanker Pan Pennsylvania - 44 casualties.
Depth:: 300 ft

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U-869

Type:: shipwreck, Type IXc/40 U-boat, Kriegsmarine, Germany
Specs:: ( 252 x 22 ft ) 1051 displacement tons, 48-56 crew
Built:: 1944, Germany
Sunk:: February 11, 1945
sunk by destroyer escort USS Howard D. Crow - no survivors
Depth:: 240 ft

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USS Akron ZRS-4

airship wreck USS Akron — In flight over the Goodyear plant in Akron Ohio, where she was built.

Type:: shipwreck, dirigible ( rigid airship ) , U.S. Navy
Built:: 1931, Akron OH USA
Specs:: ( 785 ft ) 200 tons, 76 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Tuesday April 4, 1933
atmospheric storm - 3 survivors
Depth:: 105 ft

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USS Catamount CG-85006

Type:: shipwreck, private yacht, converted to U.S. Navy patrol boat
Name:: Catamount is another name for a mountain lion, felis concolor.
Built:: 1929, Stamford CT USA
Specs:: ( 85 x 15 ft ) 67 gross tons, 11 crew
Sunk:: Saturday March 27, 1943
engine explosion - 6 casualties
Depth:: 125 ft

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USS Cherokee ID-458

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, US Navy
Name:: An Indian tribe of Pennsylvania and New York, later relocated to Oklahoma.
Built:: 1891, Camden NJ USA, as Edgar F. Luckenbach
Specs:: ( 120 x 25 ft ) 272 gross tons, 20 crew
Sunk:: Tuesday July 26, 1918
foundered in storm - 10 survivors
Depth:: 90 ft

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USS Moonstone PYc-9

Type:: shipwreck, patrol boat, U.S. Navy (converted yacht)
Built:: 1929, Germany, as Lone Star
Specs:: ( 171 x 26 ft ) 469 gross tons, 47 crew
Sunk:: Friday October 15, 1943
collision with destroyer USS Greer ( 1090 tons) - no casualties
Depth:: 130 ft

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USS Murphy DD-603

Type:: shipwreck, destroyer, Benson class, U.S. Navy ( similar to USS Turner )
Built:: 1941, Staten Island NY USA
Specs:: ( 348 x 36 ft ) 1620 displacement tons, 266 crew
Sunk:: Thursday October 21, 1943
collision with tanker Bulkoil (8071 tons) - 38 casualties
Depth:: 260 ft

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