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Thurmond

Shipwreck Thurmond — The unusual submarine-like hull form of a whale-back steamer. Sea-keeping was poor, and the design was ultimately not successful, and died out.

Type:: shipwreck, "whale-back" steamer, USA
Built:: 1890, AmShip Superior, Duluth MN USA, as Colgate Hoyt
Specs:: ( 276 x 36 ft ) 1253 displacement tons
Sunk:: Saturday December 25, 1909
ran aground in thick fog - 10 casualties
Depth:: 14 ft

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Tolten

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, Chile ( originally Denmark )
Name:: Tolten is a city on the central coast of Chile.
Built:: 1938, Denmark, as Lotta
Specs:: ( 280 x 43 ft ) 1858 gross tons, 28 crew
Sunk:: Friday March 13, 1942
torpedoed by U-404 - 27 casualties
Depth:: 95 ft

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Remedios Pascual

Remedios Pascual

Type:: shipwreck, sailing ship, Spain
Built:: 1885, J. Urquhart, Canada, as Stalwart
Specs:: ( 216 x 40 ft ) 1605 gross tons, 21 crew
Sunk:: Saturday January 3, 1903
ran aground in bad weather - no casualties
Depth:: 25 ft

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Gulf Trade

Shipwreck 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, Sun Shipbuilding, 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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RP Resor

Shipwreck RP Resor — A model of the Resor

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, USA
Name:: Named for R P Resor, Treasurer of Standard Oil.
Built:: 1936, Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ USA
Specs:: ( 435 x 66 ft ) 7451 gross tons, 49 crew
Sunk:: Friday February 28, 1942
torpedoed by U-578 - 2 survivors
Depth:: 125 ft

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Chaparra

Shipwreck 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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ShipBuildingHistory.com

July 15, 2022

ShipBuildingHistory.com is a resource that I have often used to look up many of the reefs and a few of the wrecks in this website. I recently sent in an update, and received a notice that the author had passed away. The next thing that usually happens in these cases is that the website disappears when the hosting goes unpaid, so I immediately grabbed a copy for myself.

That's when I found that the original site was almost a gigabyte in size, and 95% of that was formatting. So I cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and added some navigation structures and other niceties that you would expect. Then I posted my copy as a sub-site here:

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