- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Specs:
- ( 62 ft )
- Sponsor:
- Bob Henry
- Sunk:
- Friday December 19, 1997 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 40°08.005' -73°56.025'
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Trawlers (5/6)
There are three basic types of commercial fishing vessels found in the Mid-Atlantic region: trawlers, seiners/gill-netters, and long-liners. A trawler or "dragger" operates by towing its fishing gear across the bottom. Weighted nets take bottom fishes, while cage-like steel dredges take clams and scallops. A seiner uses a floating net to encircle schools of surface-swimming fishes such as herring and tuna. A long-liner sets out miles of buoyed line with baited hooks to catch sharks, tuna, and swordfish. One could also add lobster boats and charter fishing or "head" boats to this list. And of course, dive boats.
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- Specs:
- ( 55 ft )
- Sunk:
- Saturday April 23, 1994 - Shinnecock Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°48.173' -72°28.489'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Specs:
- ( 135 x 32 ft )
- Built:
- 1945, American Bridge, Ambridge PA, as YF-879
- Sponsor:
- Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association, Atlantic Cape Fisheries, Artificial Reef Association
- Sunk:
- Friday August 21, 1992 - Cape May Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 38°53.118' -74°40.190'
- Depth:
- 70 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Built:
- 1954
- Specs:
- ( 65 ft )
- Sponsor:
- Manasquan River Marlin & Tuna Club, Ann E Clark Foundation
- Sunk:
- Saturday January 28, 2006 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 40°03.452' -73°59.985'
- Depth:
- 80 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1964, Somerset MA, as Joseph & Lucia II
- Specs:
- ( 88 x 23 ft ) 179 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Thursday January 4, 2024 - Mattituck Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- ~80 ft
- GPS:
- 40°03.396' -72°34.186'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1979, Canaveral SB, Cape Canaveral FL
- Specs:
- ( 97 x 24 ft ) 185GT
- Sunk:
- Friday March 12, 1999 - Moriches Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°43.439' -72°46.440'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Built:
- 1967, Rockport Texas as Faneca
- Specs:
- ( 95 ft ) 66 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Friday August 11, 2023 - Garden State North Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 39°37.249' -74°01.178'
- Depth:
- 80 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1975 - Master Marine, Inc., Bayou La Bâtre AL USA
- Specs:
- ( 70 ft ) 147 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Tuesday October 9, 2001 - Moriches Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°43.480' -72°46.503'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- Specs:
- ( 76 ft )
- Sunk:
- Friday June 18, 2004 - Moriches Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°43.382' -72°46.562'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1948, Bath Iron Works, Maine, USA
- Specs:
- ( 117 x 24 ft ) 195 gross tons
- Sponsor:
- Eirek's Dock, Fish America Foundation
- Sunk:
- Wednesday July 12, 1989 - Cape May Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 38°50.825' -74°43.312'
- Depth:
- 60 ft
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The schooner barge was the final development of the working sailing ship. The design originally evolved in the 1870s on the Great Lakes, where it was found that sailing ships could be more profitably towed from place to place than sailed. No longer subject to the vagaries of the wind, such trips could be made on a scheduled basis, and with reduced labor costs. The idea spread into general use, resulting in the conversion of many sailing ships into barges. Ironically, most of the vessels that were converted to schooner barges were not actually schooners, but square-rigged ships. Square-riggers, with their large and expensive crews of skilled sailors, became uneconomical to operate in the face of ever-improving steam power, while more efficient schooners managed to compete for a few years longer.
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