- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer, England
- Built:
- 1871, England
- Specs:
- ( 251 x 32 ft ) 1258 gross tons, 22 crew
- Sunk:
- Monday January 11, 1886
overloaded and foundered in storm - no casualties - Depth:
- 95 ft
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Steamers (3/5)
Steamer is an early term for any vessel power by a steam engine rather than sails.
Early steamers were propelled by large paddlewheels. "Side-wheelers", with the paddlewheels on each side, were more seaworthy, and therefore more common in ocean waters, while "stern-wheelers", with a single large paddlewheel at the back, were more common as riverboats. Later, these were replaced by more efficient screw (or propeller) vessels.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer, USA
- Built:
- 1885, Bath ME USA
- Specs:
- ( 252 x 37 ft ) 1605 tons, 351 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Monday February 11, 1907
collision with schooner Harry Knowlton - 334 casualties - Depth:
- 140 ft
huge paddlewheels; wooden hull draped with fishing nets; hazardous currents & poor viz.
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer, Germany
( at time of loss chartered to Ward Lines, see Mohawk ) - Name:
- Macedonia is a region in the southern Balkans, adjoining Greece, and formerly part of Yugoslavia.
- Built:
- 1894, England
- Specs:
- ( 280 x 41 ft ) 2268 gross tons, 19 passengers & crew
- Sunk:
- Tuesday June 13, 1899
collision with liner Hamilton ( 3127 tons) - 1 casualty - GPS:
- 40°21.418' -73°56.153' (AWOIS 1991)
- Depth:
- 60 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, steamer, USA
- Built:
- 1858, New York NY USA
- Specs:
- ( 198 x 29 ft ) 1100 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Sunday January 7, 1877
collision with schooner Seminole - 13 casualties - Depth:
- 150 ft
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- Type:
- shipwreck, iron-hulled screw steamer
- Built:
- 1881, England
- Specs:
- ( 287 x 37 ft ) 1963 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Saturday September 23, 1882
ran aground - no casualties
Coast Guard records denote this wreck as "disproved" - no longer there. It was removed as a hazard to navigation. Nuphar is the genus name for Water Lilies.
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LOST AT SEA:
A treatise on the management and ownership
of shipwrecks and shipwreck artifacts
by Michael C. Barnette
Somewhere out on the ocean, a ship is in distress. Tossed about by churning seas and brutal winds, the vessel struggles to stay afloat. Her crew puts forth a valiant effort while passengers, many incapacitated by waves of nausea spawned by the ever-moving deck underneath their feet, huddle together in fear. The hull is slowly breached, and seawater steadily invades the ship. As the blitzkrieg of flooding water rises to extinguish the boiler fires, the vessel loses all power. Cast in darkness and overwhelmed by the noise of the howling wind and crashing surf, the sea tears off sections of the crippled ship, carrying away numerous unfortunate souls. The end is near.
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