Little Skate

Little Skate

Raja erinacea

Size: to 21" long

Habitat: Soft sandy bottoms, in depths from shallows to 300 ft.

Notes:
The commonest inshore skate. Short tail with two fins but no stinger. Winter Skate similar but larger, to 3 ft.

Little Skate
Fleeing a photographer.
Little Skate
Little Skate

Compare head and body shape with flounders.

Herb Segars Photography

Shipwreck Manasquan Wreck
A Black Ball packet ship ( Orpheus ) leaving New York, 1835. Note the Black Ball insignia on the fore-topsail.
Type:
shipwreck, sailing ship, USA
Built:
1816, New York NY, USA
Specs:
382 tons
Sunk:
Saturday April 24, 1824
ran aground in a fog - no casualties
Depth:
30 ft