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Sumner

Shipwreck Sumner
Type:
shipwreck, collier, converted to passenger freighter, USA
Built:
1883, Germany, as Rhaetia
Specs:
( 351 x 43 ft ) 3553 gross tons, 232+ passengers & crew
Sunk:
Tuesday December 12, 1916
ran aground - no casualties
Depth:
25 ft
Shipwreck Sumner

low debris field, possibly buried, 300 yards offshore

Shipwreck Sumner

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Offshore Tugboat

Type:
tugboat (?)
Depth:
100 ft

This is a scattered wreck not far from the Great Isaac, clearly a small steel-hulled ship of some kind. There is a boiler and what looks like the remains of a section of hull sticking out of the sand a foot or two.

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