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Shipwreck Lightburne
Type:
shipwreck, tanker, USA (Texaco)
Built:
1919, Texas Steamship Company, Bath ME USA
Specs:
( 432 x 56 ft ) 6429 tons, 37 crew + dog
Sunk:
Friday February 10, 1939
ran aground on Block Island - no casualties
Depth:
30 ft

Freighter Lillian
Type:
shipwreck, freighter, USA
Built:
1920, Bethlehem Wilmington, Wilmington DE USA, as Maddequet
Specs:
( 327 x 46 ft ) 3482 gross tons, 32 crew
Sunk:
Sunday February 26, 1939
collision with freighter Wiegand ( 6568 tons) - no casualties
Depth:
150 ft

Shipwreck Linda
Type:
wooden schooner
Specs:
( 244 x 37 ft ) 1677 tons, 12 crew
Sunk:
unknown
Depth:
140 ft

"Deploying a clam dredge in nearshore waters, New Jersey, Cape May."
Date: May 1968
Type:
shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:
1962, St Augustine, FL USA
Specs:
( 66 x 18 ft ) 74 gross tons
Sunk:
Monday, Jan 16, 1978
capsized

Little Egg Artificial Reef

4.0 Nautical Miles off Holgate, 2.05 sq miles
Depth: 50-60 ft [download]


Brigantine Inlet


Shipwreck Lizzie D
Type:
shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:
1907, Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia PA USA
Specs:
( 77 x 21 ft ) 122 gross tons, 13 crew
Sunk:
Thursday October 19, 1922
unknown, related to smuggling during Prohibition - no survivors
Depth:
80 ft

Shipwreck Lizzie H. Brayton
Type:
shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:
1891, Bath ME USA
Specs:
( 201 ft ) 979 tons, 9 crew
Sunk:
Sunday March 27, 1914
ran aground in storm - no casualties
Depth:
15 ft

Long Branch Locomotives
Type:
2 identical small locomotives
Sunk:
1850s ?
GPS:
40.274769° --73.872292° (AWOIS 1991)
Depth:
85 ft

Logwood
Launching of the John D. Colwell
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship
Built:
1906, Cobb, Butler & Co, Rockland, Maine, USA, as John D. Colwell
Specs:
( 192 x 39 ft ) 1,042 gross tons, 14 passengers & crew
Sunk:
Wednesday May 12, 1920
collision with tanker Laramie, no casualties
Depth:
95 ft


Burbot

Lota lota

Size
to 15" avg.,
sometimes much larger

The Burbot is the only freshwater representative of the Cod family. Although native to the Great Lakes, and Midwest, they have been widely introduced for fishermen. Adults prefer deep cold water but spawn under ice in the shallows.