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Almirante

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, USA
Built:: 1909, Ireland
Specs:: ( 378 x 50 ft ) 3121 gross tons, 105 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Friday September 6, 1918
collision with U.S. Navy tanker Hisko - 5 casualties
Depth:: 70 ft

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Carolina

Type:: shipwreck, liner, USA
Built:: 1896, Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News VA USA, as La Grande Duchesse
Specs:: ( 380 x 47 ft ) 5017 gross tons, 330 passengers & crew
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
shelled by U-151 - 13 casualties
Depth:: 250 ft

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Chaparra

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Cuba
Name:: a seaport in northeastern Cuba
also Spanish for "cowboy" or slang for "shorty"
Built:: 1906, Scotland, as Tinhow
Specs:: ( 249 x 38 ft ) 1510 gross tons, 29 crew
Sunk:: Sunday October 27, 1918
struck mine laid by U-117 - 6 casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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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

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Dorothy B Barrett

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1904, Deering & Donnell, 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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Durley Chine

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, England
Built:: 1913, England
Specs:: ( 279 x 40 ft ) 1918 gross tons, 28 crew
Sunk:: Sunday April 30, 1917
collision with steamer Harlem - no casualties
Depth:: 185 ft

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Edward H Cole

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1904, Cobb Butler & Co, Rockland ME USA
Specs:: ( 228 x 43 ft ) 1791 gross tons
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
bombed by U-151 - no casualties
Depth:: 185 ft

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City of Georgetown

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1902, William Rogers & Son, 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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Isabel B Wiley

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1901, Goss & Sawyer, Rockland Me USA
Specs:: ( 226 x 43 ft ) 1778 gross tons
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
bombed by U-151 - no casualties
Depth:: 200 ft

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Jacob M Haskell

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1901, Cobb Butler & Co, Rockland ME USA
Specs:: ( 226 x 43 ft ) 1778 gross tons
Sunk:: Sunday June 2, 1918
bombed by U-151 - no casualties
Depth:: 200 ft

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Aids to Navigation

Shipping Lanes & Lighthouses

The US Coast Guard maintains a number of aids to navigation to assist vessels entering and leaving ports, both great ports like New York and Philadelphia, and minor ports like Shark River and Montauk. At sea, these aids take the form of buoys that mark out channels and shipping lanes. The chart about also marks major ocean-side lighthouses and a few others. All of these are still extant and may be visited except Shinnecock, which was torn down.

Shipping lanes are like divided highways at sea. Inbound and outbound lanes are separated by a wide "Separation Zone, " which may or may not be depicted on the charts in this website, depending on the scale. Ships "drive on the right" just like cars in civilized countries. At the inbound end where all the lanes converge into the harbor channel, things get messy, and I didn't try to depict it. Likewise, the outer ends of the lanes are not exact either.

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