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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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Horseshoe Crabs Limulus polyphemus are extremely common in the rivers and bays of this area. They are actually more closely related to spiders than to the other crustaceans on this page. In fact, technically they are not crustaceans at all. Despite their fierce-looking array of claws and spines, they are completely harmless.
They are also completely inedible - not even the native Indians would eat them except in the direst emergency. They are nonetheless threatened by man since vast numbers are collected commercially for fertilizer, bait, and other uses. Horseshoe Crabs are found from the water's edge down to 75 feet.
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