USS Ohio

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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An Aquarium For the Naturalist

By Ronald M. Clayton
Illustrations by author

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