Durley Chine ~ New Jersey Scuba Diving

Durley Chine

Type:: shipwreck, tanker, England
Built:: 1913, England
Specs:: ( 279 x 40 ft ) 1918 gross tons, 28 crew
Sunk:: Sunday April 30, 1917
collision with steamer Harlem - no casualties
Depth:: 185 ft

In the four short years that the Durley Chine was above water, no photograph was taken that has survived. This is a vessel of nearly the same tonnage and dimensions from the same builder and year. The Durley Chine was likely very similar, if not almost identical. Or perhaps not.

Could the *Harlem* have been a Great lakes steamer?

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Fishing Vessels

A small commercial fishing vessel of unknown type, although the bushels on deck would imply that she was after some kind of shellfish.

There are three basic types of commercial fishing vessels found in the Mid-Atlantic region: trawlers, seiners/gill-netters, and long-liners. A trawler or "dragger" operates by towing its fishing gear across the bottom. Weighted nets take bottom fishes, while cage-like steel dredges take clams and scallops. A seiner uses a floating net to encircle schools of surface-swimming fishes such as herring and tuna. A long-liner sets out miles of buoyed line with baited hooks to catch sharks, tuna, and swordfish. One could also add lobster boats and charter fishing or "head" boats to this list. And of course, dive boats.

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