- Type:
- shipwreck, sailing ship, Norway
- Specs:
- ( 160 ft ) 960 tons, 20 crew
- Sunk:
- Tuesday December 26, 1876
ran aground in bad weather - no casualties - Depth:
- 25 ft
low scattered wooden debris, 200 yards offshore
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low scattered wooden debris, 200 yards offshore
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aka "Derrick Barge"
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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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Rockaway Artificial Reef
Depth: 32 - 40 ft
1.6 nautical miles south of Rockaway Beach
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