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Shipwreck Charlemagne Tower
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

Shipwreck Charles Dunlap
Type:
shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:
1904, Millbridge ME USA
Specs:
( 225 x 42 ft ) 1498 gross tons
Sunk:
July 22, 1919; ran aground in fog
Depth:
25 ft

Type:
shipwreck, iron-hulled screw steamer, USA
Built:
1884, Scotland
Specs:
( 200 x 27 ft ) 761 gross tons
Sunk:
Saturday July 26, 1890
collision with schooner Zacheus Sherman - no casualties
Depth:
160 ft

contiguous but broken down


Chauncy Jerome

Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
Built:
1852, East Haddam CT, USA
Name:
Chauncey Jerome was an early 19th new England century clock maker
Specs:
( 178 x 37 ft ) 1154 tons
Sunk:
Thursday Jan 12, 1854
ran aground
Depth:
20 ft

Chesapeake was the largest oyster dredge boat built on the Chesapeake Bay.
Type:
shipwreck, clam dredge, USA
Built:
1936, Johnson Marine Railway, Crittenden VA USA
Specs:
( 93 x 25 ft ) 113 gross tons
Sunk:
early 1980s, burned, no casualties
Depth:

Type:
shipwreck, schooner ???
Depth:
30 ft

The "China Junk Wreck" by Townsend inlet rises up to 15 ft. What you can see is a couple of boilers and a debris field. To dive it you must hit the tide just right. On a good day, you can see 15-20 ft. A good tog spearfishing site.


USS Huron
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship
Specs:
( 158 ft )
Depth:
45 ft

The "China Wreck" is the partial remains of a late 19th-century wooden sailing ship, with a cargo of china plates and cups, and miscellaneous articles. This site is believed to be the wreck of the D.H. Bills, a 158'-long wooden-hulled barkentine topsail schooner that sank with a cargo of British-made earthenware during a storm in March 1880.


Shipwreck Choapa
Type:
shipwreck, freighter, Chile
Built:
1937, England, as Helga
Specs:
( 292 x 41 ft ) 1700 gross tons, 67 crew
Sunk:
Thursday September 21, 1944
collision with tanker British Harmony, then with freighter Voco ( 5090 tons) while at anchor, then with tanker Empire Garrick - no casualties
Depth:
195 ft, starts at 160 ft

Shipwreck City of Athens
Type:
shipwreck, liner, USA
Built:
1911, New York Shipbuilding, Camden NJ USA, as Somerset
Specs:
( 309 x 46 ft ) 3648 gross tons, 135 passengers & crew
Sunk:
Wednesday May 1, 1918
collision with French Navy cruiser La Gloire - 67 casualties
Depth:
110 ft

Type:
shipwreck, trawler

This site is really just a jumble of machinery. Anything resembling a ship has long since disappeared. Various clues around the site would seem to indicate a wooden-hulled trawler, probably built before the war ( WWII ) and sunk sometime after.