Gwendoline Steers

Type:
shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:
1888, camden NJ USA, as Douglas H. Thomas
Specs:
( 97 x 21 ft ) 148 tons, 9 crew
Sunk:
Sunday December 30, 1962
cause unknown - no survivors
Depth:
40 ft, starts at 20 ft

The Gwendoline Steers was used to haul gravel from a huge gravel pit in Northport to NYC. The loss of the Gwendoline Steers may have been due to icing in a blizzard, or age and poor maintenance. A week earlier she had been run aground. The wreck sits intact and upright, with usually poor visibility.

Shipwreck Gwendoline Steers

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