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Lightburne

Shipwreck Lightburne
Type:
shipwreck, tanker, USA (Texaco)
Built:
1919, Texas Steamship Company, Bath ME USA
Specs:
( 432 x 56 ft ) 6429 tons, 37 crew + dog
Sunk:
Friday February 10, 1939
ran aground on Block Island - no casualties
Depth:
30 ft
Shipwreck Lightburne

dynamited by the Coast Guard - large low debris field of ribs & plates

Shipwreck Lightburne New York Times

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William B. Diggs

Type:
shipwreck, barge
Built:
1918
Specs:
1041 tons
Sunk:
Monday September 3, 1934
foundered - no casualties
Depth:
42 ft

The Diggs was engaged in a salvage operation at the time of her loss and actually settled on top of another shipwreck, of unknown origin. The green blinker buoy for which it is known was removed after the wooden wreck was demolished in the 1970s. Also known as the "Green Blinker Wreck".

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