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Tankers (2/4)

tanker ship drawing — Typical 1930s oil tanker

A tanker is a cargo ship designed to carry liquid cargoes, usually but not always fuel oils.

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Helis YO-153

Type:: artificial reef, tanker, U.S. Navy
Built:: 1943, Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Brooklyn NY USA
Specs:: ( 156 x 30 ft ) 370 tons (empty) 1000 tons (full)
Sunk:: Tuesday May 17, 2005 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°37.856' -74°00.986'
Depth:: 80 ft

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India Arrow

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Built:: 1921, Bethlehem Quincy, Quincy MA USA
Specs:: ( 468 x 62 ft ) 8327 gross tons, 38 crew
Sunk:: Wednesday February 4, 1942
torpedoed by U-103 - 12 survivors
Depth:: 190 ft

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Jet Trader YO-167

Type:: artificial reef, tanker
Built:: 1944, Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Brooklyn NY USA
Specs:: ( 156 x 30 ft ) 440 tons
Sponsor:: Cleanwater of New York
Sunk:: Friday September 2 2005 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°13.850' -74°12.510'

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Lightburne

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA (Texaco)
Built:: 1919, Texas Steamship Company, Bath ME USA
Specs:: ( 432 x 56 ft ) 6429 tons, 37 crew + dog
Sunk:: Friday February 10, 1939
ran aground on Block Island - no casualties
Depth:: 30 ft

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Mako Mania YW-127

Type:: artificial reef, tanker, US Navy YW-83 class
Built:: 1945, Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, WI, USA, as YW-127
Specs:: ( 174 x 33 ft )
Sponsor:: GPPCBA, Budweiser
Sunk:: Thursday July 16, 1998 - Shark River Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°06.419' -73°41.460'
Depth:: 125 ft

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Morania Abaco

Type:: artificial reef, tanker, USA
Built:: 1958, RTC Shipbuilding, Camden NJ USA
Specs:: ( 264 x 48 ft )
Sponsor:: Morania Oil Company, Army Reserve, Navy EOD
Sunk:: Monday November 18, 1985 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°14.133' -74°12.154'
Depth:: 110 ft

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Norness

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, Panama
Built:: 1939, Germany
Specs:: ( 493 x 65 ft ) 9577 tons
Sunk:: Wednesday January 14, 1942
torpedoed and shelled by U-123 - the first loss of World War II in U.S. waters
Depth:: 280 ft, min 210 ft

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Oklahoma

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Built:: 1908, New York Shipbuilding, Camden NJ USA
Specs:: ( 419 x 55 ft ) 5853 gross tons, 38 crew
Sunk:: Sunday January 4, 1914
broke in half in storm - 25 casualties

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Ocean Wreck Divers IV "The Bow"

Ocean Wreck Divers IV reef — Please support the Artificial Reef Program so that they can sink the rest of this ship !

Type:: artificial reef, tanker ( front half only )
Specs:: ( 85 x 30 ft )
Sponsor:: Ocean Wreck Divers
Sunk:: Friday August 7, 1998 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°07.750' -73°56.345'
Depth:: 70 ft

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Pan Pennsylvania

Type:: shipwreck, tanker (T3), USA
Built:: 1943, Welding Shipyards, Norfolk VA, USA
Specs:: ( 516 x 70 ft ) 11017 gross tons
Sunk:: Sunday April 16, 1944
torpedoed by U-550, then shelled and sunk by USS Sagamore - 60 survivors
Depth:: 240 ft ?

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Possibly the most preposterous artifact that has ever been recovered is one of the masts from the Lightship Relief. Over 50 ft long and weighing some 6000 pounds, the mast was recovered by divers in 1976 and set up in front of a dive shop in Laurence Harbor. ( It was called "Diver's Cove". )

The dive shop has long since closed, and the huge mast now lies off to the side, a rusting eyesore. The present owner of the property claims it is a registered historic landmark. Apparently not so - as of March 2008 it was hauled away as garbage. Better that it had just been left in the sea, but this is the fate of many divers' "artifacts."

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