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Charles Dunlap

Shipwreck Charles Dunlap

Type:: shipwreck, schooner, USA
Built:: 1904, Millbridge ME USA
Specs:: ( 225 x 42 ft ) 1498 gross tons
Sunk:: July 22, 1919; ran aground in fog
Depth:: 25 ft

This wreck is also known as the Coconut Wreck. She was a four-masted schooner, launched as the Myrtle Sawyer, on November 24, 1904, in Millbridge, Maine, by the Warren Sawyer Co. She weighed 1,498 gross tons, was 224.8 feet long and 42 feet wide. A year later she was abandoned in an easterly gale and towed to Savannah. Many years later she was renamed Forest City. In 1916, the ship caught fire while in San Juan where her hulk was sold, rebuilt and renamed, Charles E. Dunlap.

On July 22, 1919, on her first voyage as the Charles E. Dunlap, while trying to enter New York harbor ending her voyage from San Juan, Captain Richard Crapsey lost his bearings due to a heavy fog and ran aground on Rockaway Shoal. Although there were calm seas, the Dunlap was unable to be saved. She remained on Rockaway Shoal until she broke up.

The Dunlap was carrying a cargo of coconuts during her last voyage, hence the name Coconut Wreck.

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Cecilia M. Dunlap

Shipwreck Cecilia M. Dunlap — Parknook, rigged as a bark rather than a barge

Type:: shipwreck, schooner barge ( originally a bark )
Built:: 1876 as Parknook
Specs:: ( 199 x 32 ft ) 793 tons
Sunk:: Saturday September 12, 1931
foundered
GPS:: 40°25.374' -73°52.828' (AWOIS 2013)
Depth:: 60 ft

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Gear Lanyards

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Chances are your light or other piece of gear came with a wrist lanyard. This item is probably ok for diving in the tropics where you shouldn't be doing anything with your hands anyway, but around here it is lousy. Wrist lanyards are a pain to put on and a pain to get off, and in the case of a light, if you let go of it to do something with both hands, it will invariably get in the way and bob around until it shines in your eyes and blinds you. When you finally get fed up with it, you will take it off, and in a careless moment, your equipment will be lost. Here is a much better rig, commonly known as a "hi-lo" lanyard:

Take the wrist lanyard off, and throw it away. Get two brass snaps and a piece of rope. Braided 1/2 " nylon is what I used because it is supple, won't rot, won't unravel, and doesn't float. Attach a brass snap to each end. You can just tie them on, or get fancy like me and make streamlined loops. The end-to-end length of mine is about four feet, including the snaps, but you can experiment. Attach the base ring of one of the brass snaps directly to your gear where the lanyard was.

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