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Gulf Trade

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA ( Gulf Oil )
Name:: One of a series of ships owned by Gulf Oil company, all named "Gulf ____"
Built:: 1920, Chester PA USA
Specs:: ( 430 x 59 ft ) 6776 gross tons, 34 crew
Sunk:: Tuesday March 10, 1942
torpedoed by U-588 - 18 casualties
Depth:: bow - 60 ft ; stern - 90 ft

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Gypsum Prince

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, England
Built:: 1927, England
Specs:: ( 347 x 52 ft ) 3915 gross tons, 26 crew
Sunk:: Sunday May 3, 1942
collision with freighter Voco ( 5090 tons) - 6 casualties
Depth:: 70 ft

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Harry Rush

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ship
Specs:: 965 tons
Sunk:: Wednesday February 17, 1943
possibly collision with barge F.F. Clain
Depth:: 80 ft

The Harry Rush is described as a freighter by Krotee, not always the most reliable source. The wreck commonly known as the Harry Rush is a sailing ship. The wreck is the typical three parallel wooden walls, very low-lying, with some steam machinery and chain pile at the west end. The orientation of the wreck is unusual, as if it sank while running for the shore, rather than riding out a storm. The absence of towing bits makes it likely this was a true sailing ship rather than a schooner barge.

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HMS Pentland Firth

Type:: shipwreck, trawler, Royal Navy
Name:: Pentland Firth is the channel between the northern tip of Scotland and the Islands that form Scapa Flow, the great British naval base, and today one of the best wreck diving locales in the world.
Built:: 1934, England
Specs:: ( 164 x 27 ft ) 485 gross tons
Sunk:: Saturday September 19, 1942
collision with minesweeper trawler USS Chaffinch (400 tons) - ? casualties
GPS:: 40°25.433' -73°52.204' (AWOIS 1991)
Depth:: 70 ft

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Hvoslef

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Norway
Built:: 1927, England
Specs:: ( 255 x 35 ft ) 1630 gross tons, 20 crew
Sunk:: Tuesday March 10, 1942
torpedoed by U-94 - 6 casualties
Depth:: 140 ft

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India Arrow

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Built:: 1921, 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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Lake Frampton

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Built:: 1918, Lorain OH USA
Specs:: ( 251 x 43 ft ) 2622 gross tons, 38 crew
Sunk:: Monday July 12, 1920
collision with SS Comus - 2 casualties

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Lemuel Burrows

Type:: shipwreck, collier, USA
Built:: 1917, Camden NJ USA, as Deepwater
Specs:: ( 437 x 63 ft ) 7610 gross tons, 34 crew
Sunk:: Saturday March 14, 1942
torpedoed by U-404 - 20 casualties
Depth:: 80 ft

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Maiden Creek

Type:: freighter
Built:: 1919, Hog Island PA USA
Specs:: ( 390 x 54 ft ) 5031 gross tons, 51 crew
Sunk:: Thursday December 31, 1942
foundered in a storm - 20 casualties
Depth:: 225 ft

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Maurice Tracy

Type:: shipwreck, collier, USA
Built:: 1916, Ashtabula OH USA, as Nordstrand, later Sekstant
Specs:: ( 253 x 43 ft ) 2468 gross tons
Sunk:: Saturday June 17, 1944
collision with freighter Jesse Billingsley - no casualties
Depth:: 70 ft

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Ships & Barges

Morania Abaco reef — Four explosive charges set by a U.S. Navy demolition team rip holes in the hull of the *Morania Abaco* on the Atlantic City Reef. ( Photo by Ray Fisk )

Old Ships Make New Homes For Fish

Old vessels make excellent artificial reefs. They provide high profile structure for pelagic fish, low profile structure for demersal fish, as well as surface area for the attachment of mussels, barnacles, tubeworms, and other food organisms. Shipwrecks have been the basis for the state's bottom fisheries which feature sea bass, tautog, ling, cod, and pollock. and for recreational scuba diving activities. The New Jersey coast has a large number of shipwrecks, estimates range from 500 to 3,000. These wrecks are the result of 200 years of maritime disasters and enemy submarine operations during World Wars I and II.

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