Southern Sword

Type:
shipwreck, freighter, USA, converted to barge
Built:
1918, Globe Shipbuilding, Superior WI, as Contoocook, later Elda
Specs:
( 251' x 43 ft ) 2344 gross tons
Sunk:
Monday March 18, 1946
foundered
GPS:
38°36.769' -74°56.878' (DNREC)
Depth:
60 ft

The Contoocook was built for the USSB, but was too late for WWI. Converted to barge Southern Sword in 1932, and sank with a full load of coal just outside of what would later become Delaware artificial reef #10.

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ShipBuildingHistory.com is a resource that I have often used to look up many of the reefs and a few of the wrecks in this website. I recently sent in an update, and received a notice that the author had passed away. The next thing that usually happens in these cases is that the website disappears when the hosting goes unpaid, so I immediately grabbed a copy for myself.

That's when I found that the original site was almost a terabyte in size, and 95% of that was formatting. So I cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and cleaned it up, and added some navigation structures and other niceties that you would expect. Then I posted my copy as a sub-site here:

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