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USS Ohio

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Shipwreck U.S.S. Ohio

Type:: shipwreck, 74 gun ship-of-the-line, U.S. Navy
Name:: that place next to Indiana
Built:: 1820, Brooklyn NY USA
Specs:: ( 208 x 54 ft ) 2757 gross tons
Sunk:: April 1884
set adrift and grounded by storm while being dismantled, later deliberately burned
Depth:: 20 ft

The stripped hulk of the Ohio eventually burned and sank. Today nothing is left but scattered timbers and debris.

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