Grecian (1/2)
- Type:
- shipwreck, freighter, USA
- Built:
- 1899, Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington DE USA
- Specs:
- ( 263 x 29 ft ) 2825 tons, 34 crew
- Sunk:
- Friday May 27, 1932
collision with SS City of Chattanooga - 4 casualties - Depth:
- 95 ft
Rockaway Belle is listed as Army tug-transport T-1, built by Simms Brothers, Dorchester MA, 1942. 'T-boats' were 65-foot, 45 ton diesel-powered, passenger-cargo boats that doubled as harbor tugs. 170 of them were constructed during WWII, and many more afterwards. From 1940 through 1951 all T-Boats were built of wood, thereafter steel. Rockaway Belle was T-1 of the T-1 class, sold as surplus in 1947.
Rockaway Belle sank some time after 1977, there is a record of her active then.
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