Plymouth

Type:
shipwreck, schooner barge
Built:
1916, Elkton MD USA
Specs:
( 199 x 24 ft ) 474 tons
Sunk:
Monday March 31, 1924
foundered in storm, 5 casualties ( see Pocono )
Depth:
65 ft

from AWOIS: 1531

FE331SS/89 -- OPR-C147-HE-89; CONTACT #9; SIDE-SCAN SONAR CONTACT, FOUND ON ABOVE SURVEY, INVESTIGATED BY DIVERS; LOCATED THE REMAINS OF A LARGE SUNKEN WOODEN SHIP; APPEARED TO HAVE SETTLED KEEL DOWN AND TO ONE SIDE; ONLY ONE SHEER STRAKE RUNNING 40 M LONG AND SOME DECK PLANKS WERE EXPOSED; MOST OF THE SHIP WAS BURIED IN THE SAND; CURRENT SCOUR ALONG THE OUTBOARD SIDE OF THE WRECK ACCOUNTED FOR THE DIVERS MAXIMUM DEPTH OF 64 FT; SHOALEST POINT ROSE APPROXIMATELY 3 FT OFF A SANDY BOTTOM; PNEUMATIC DEPTH GAUGE LEAST DEPTH OF 54 FT. (UPDATED MSD 7/91)

24 NO. 361; SUNK 1939, CGS WD CLEARED TO 42 FT IN 1939
27 NO.644; LOCATED BY U.S.C. & G.S. IN SEPT. 1939, CLEARED TO 42 FT.


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M60 tanks reef
M60 tanks undergo a thorough cleaning before use as reefs

The Artificial Reef Program used four types of obsolete Army armored vehicles as artificial reef materials off the New Jersey coast. These were cleaned at local military bases, loaded onto barges for transport, and pushed off at their final destination. Once the Army had disposed of its excess inventory, the program ceased, around 1999. The Artificial Reef Program has sunk almost 400 tanks altogether, far too many to list them here in this website.

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