Sailing Ships (2/5) ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Sailing Ships (2/5)

A packet ship of the early 1800s. Of note is the way the sails on the mainmast are set backward, against the sails on the fore- and mizzen- masts. Known as "backing", this was how a square-rigged ship "put on the brakes" to slow or stop without actually furling the sails.

Wind power has been used by mankind for millennia. Almost every human culture has constructed sailing vessels of some kind, from crude log or reed rafts to the highly developed wind-jammers of the early twentieth century. Many of these vessels were the most complex and technologically advanced machines of their time - equivalent to our jet airliners.

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City of Georgetown

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1902, Bath Me USA
Specs:: ( 168 x 36 ft ) 599 gross tons, 8+ passengers & crew
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
collision with liner Prinz Oskar ( 1090 tons) - no casualties
Depth:: 110 ft

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Cornelia Soule

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Specs:: 306 tons, 6 crew
Sunk:: Saturday April 26, 1902
ran aground in bad weather - no casualties
GPS:: 40°25.992' -73°10.620' (AWOIS 2013)
Depth:: 25 ft

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Cornelius Grinnell

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
Specs:: ( 180 x 38 ft ) 1100 tons
Sunk:: Monday, January 13, 1853
grounded in storm - no casualties

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Cornelius Hargraves

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1889, Camden ME, USA
Specs:: ( 211 x 45 ft ) 1332 gross tons, 10 crew
Sunk:: Saturday October 30, 1890
collision with steamer Vizcaya - no casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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Dorothy B Barrett

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1904, Bath ME USA
Specs:: ( 259 x 45 ft ) 2088 gross tons, 10 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday August 14, 1918
shelled by U-117 - no casualties
Depth:: 60 ft

low debris field mostly buried in the sand

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Dual Wrecks

Shipwreck Rusland — The *Rusland*, aground, with onlookers.

Type:: Adonis - shipwreck, wood-hulled bark
Rusland - shipwreck, iron-hulled steamer, England
Built:: Adonis - 1853, Germany
Rusland - 1872, Scotland, as Kenilworth
Specs:: Adonis - 550 tons, 12 crew
Rusland - ( 345 x 37 ft ) 2538 gross tons, ~200 passengers & crew
Depth:: 25 ft
Sunk:: Adonis - Tuesday March 8, 1859 - ran aground in bad weather, no casualties
Rusland - Saturday March 17, 1877 - ran aground in bad weather, no casualties