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- Type:
- shipwreck, liner, USA
- Built:
- 1896, Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News VA USA, as La Grande Duchesse
- Specs:
- ( 380 x 47 ft ) 5017 gross tons, 330 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday June 2, 1918
shelled by U-151 - 13 casualties - Depth:
- 250 ft
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- Specs:
- 370 passengers, must have been pretty big
- Sunk:
- around 1870, no casualties
I know of no charted location known as the Catherine Jackson, although it is reputed to have sunk in the area shown.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, Brazil
- Built:
- 1919, American International Shipbuilding, Hog Island PA USA, as Scanmail
- Specs:
- ( 390 x 54 ft ) 5152 gross tons, 83 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday March 8, 1942
torpedoed by U-94 - 53 casualties - Depth:
- 125-140 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, schooner barge ( originally a bark )
- Built:
- 1876 as Parknook
- Specs:
- ( 199 x 32 ft ) 793 tons
- Sunk:
- Saturday September 12, 1931
foundered - GPS:
- 40°25.374' -73°52.828' (AWOIS 2013)
- Depth:
- 60 ft
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- Type:
- Celtic - shipwreck, canal tugboat, USA
Cape Race - shipwreck, barge, Oyster Bay NY USA - Built:
- Celtic - 1958, Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay NY USA as Russell 10
- Specs:
- Celtic - ( 85 ft ) 6 crew
Cape Race - ( 150 ft ) - Sunk:
- Saturday November 17, 1984
barge foundered, pulling tug down with it - no survivors - Depth:
- 60 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer, USA
- Built:
- 1859, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington DE USA
- Specs:
- ( 234 x 31 ft ) 1419 gross tons, 55 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Friday November 7, 1879
collision with sailing ship Lady Octavia - 28 casualties - Depth:
- 105 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, Cuba
- Name:
- a seaport in northeastern Cuba
also Spanish for "cowboy" or slang for "shorty" - Built:
- 1906, Scotland, as Tinhow
- Specs:
- ( 249 x 38 ft ) 1510 gross tons, 29 crew
- Sunk:
- Sunday October 27, 1918
struck mine laid by U-117 - 6 casualties - Depth:
- 80 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, Great Lakes ore carrier, USA
- Built:
- 1888, Quayle & Sons, Cleveland OH USA
- Specs:
- ( 255 x 40 ft ) 1825 gross tons, 19 crew
- Sunk:
- Friday March 6, 1914
foundered in rough seas - no casualties - Depth:
- 75 ft
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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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