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Description: fishing vessel, wood.
Dimensions: length 104.1 ft., width 15 ft., depth 8.1 ft.
Tonnage: gross 82, other.
Propulsion: diesel; propellor.
Machinery: 171, horse power.
Cargo:

The Shipwreck

Date Sunk: September 15, 1955.
Cause: foundered.
Location: Between the Little Salvages and the Dry Salvages off Rockport.
Coordinates: latitude 42° - 40' - 25" N; longitude 70° - 34' - 19" W.
Loran:

Dive Site Conditions

Depth in feet:
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     In Brad Luther's 1967 publication New England Shipwrecks, he describes the vessel as lying alongside to the west of "the large rock located between the Dry Salvages and Little Salvages," which can be located at low water by waves breaking over it.

Historical Background

Constructed: in 1917, at Boston, Massachusetts.
Construction details: Boston Beam Trawler.
Crew: Master:
Owners: Matteo Logrande.
Home or Hailing Port: Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Former Name(s) and date(s): Salvatore & Rosalie (1932, first appeared in registry).
Official number: 231067. Country: U.S.A.
Other Comments:

Salvage

Sources:
AWOIS; 1988
Merchant Vessels of the United States; 1956
Merchant Vessels of the United States, Vessels Lost Chapter; 1957
New England Shipwrecks, Luther, 1967

 
 

 
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