- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, Argentina
- Built:
- 1912, England, as Fortunstella
- Specs:
- ( 405 x 54 ft ) 4864 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Monday June 22, 1942
torpedoed by U-202 - 5 casualties - Depth:
- 400 ft ?
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Dive Sites (33/46)
Dive Sites - pick your starting point
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- Type:
- shipwreck, side-wheel steamer USA
- Built:
- 1847, Joseph Tomlinson, New York NY USA
- Specs:
- ( 133 x 31 ft ) tons
- Sunk:
- June 21, 1860
collision with schooner Fanny - Depth:
- 85 ft
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Rjukan
- 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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- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner, USA
- Built:
- 1886, Rockland ME USA
- Specs:
- ( 225 x 37 ft ) 1556 tons
- Sunk:
- February 8, 1899; unknown
- Depth:
- 23 ft
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
1.6 nautical miles south of Rockaway Beach, 1.00 sq miles
Depth: 32 - 40 ft
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- Type:
- freshwater artificial reservoir
- Depth:
180 ft , but less than 60 ft in the usual area
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The schooner barge was the final development of the working sailing ship. The design originally evolved in the 1870s on the Great Lakes, where it was found that sailing ships could be more profitably towed from place to place than sailed. No longer subject to the vagaries of the wind, such trips could be made on a scheduled basis, and with reduced labor costs. The idea spread into general use, resulting in the conversion of many sailing ships into barges. Ironically, most of the vessels that were converted to schooner barges were not actually schooners, but square-rigged ships. Square-riggers, with their large and expensive crews of skilled sailors, became uneconomical to operate in the face of ever-improving steam power, while more efficient schooners managed to compete for a few years longer.
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