Southern Sword ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Southern Sword

Type:: shipwreck, freighter, USA, converted to barge
Built:: 1918, Globe Shipbuilding, Superior WI, as Contoocook, later Elda
Specs:: ( 251' x 43 ft ) 2344 gross tons
Sunk:: Monday March 18, 1946
foundered
GPS:: 38°36.769' -74°56.878' (DNREC)
Depth:: 60 ft

The Contoocook was built for the USSB, but was too late for WWI. Converted to barge Southern Sword in 1932, and sank with a full load of coal just outside of what would later become Delaware artificial reef #10.

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