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About Wrecks
There have been wrecks ever since humans first launched small boats into the treacherous waters of unknown seas. Most of these disasters are unmarked in history either because the boats sank to the bottom and were never heard from again or record-keeping was still a thing of the future. What is a Shipwreck?
Often, the wrecks on Long Islands barrier beaches did not necessarily mean the loss of the ship. Very often large vessels simply ran aground and could either be refloated with the tide or with the assistance of a salvor. In the USLSS Annuals these incidents are referred to as groundings. A shipwreck, on the other hand, is the destruction or loss of a ship. The word is also used to describe the remains of a ship after it has sunk. |
Wreck of the Day
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Explore Shipwrecks by the Month
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January
1.2.1837 - Mexico 1.9.1889 - George Appold 1.11.1886 - Hylton Castle 1.12.1884 - Avlona 1.13.1840 - Lexington 1.15.1942 - Coimbra 1.15,16.1871 - Rosina 1.16.1894 - Joseph F. Loubat 1.21.1897 - Nahum Chapin 1.22.1904 - Augustus Hunt 1.24.1781 - HMS Culloden 1.25.1892 - Harry and Aubrey |
February
2.2.1902 - Antelope, Belle of Oregon, Mystic Belle 2.6.1915 - Hougomont 2.8.1895 - John B. Manning 2.8.1895 - Louis V. Place 2.9.1900 - Gate City 2.17.1893 - Elsie Fay 2.20.1858 - John Milton 2.22.1904 - Benjamin C. Cromwell |
March
3.1.1902 - Acara 3.4.1881 - Ajace 3.8.1657 - Prinz Maurits 3.14.1886 - Oregon 3.24.1878 - Ann Hickman 3.25.1893 - Gluckauf |
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April
4.1.1885 - Oliveto 4.6.1911 - Prinzess Irene 4.7.1894 - Benjamin B. Church 4.14.1842 - Louis Phillippe 4.16.1961 - USS Baldwin 4.20.1880 - William H. Aspinwall 4.22.1917 - Durley Chine 4.26.1902 - Cornelia Soule 4.30. 1908 - Peter Rickmers |
May
5.1,2.1897 - Phoebe Ann 5.1.1909 - William c. Carnegie 5.6.1894 - La Champagne 5.13.1839 - Edward Quesnel 5.22.1922 - Eagle 17 5.29.1884 - Daylight |
June
6.3.1871 - Pacific 6.9.1909 - Antonio Lopez 6.11.1880 - Narragansett 6.12.1884 - Bermuda 6.15.1904 - General Slocum 6.17.1906 - Vincenzo Bonanno 6.24.1886 - James T. Abbott 6.28.1880 - Seawanhaka |
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July
7.4.1884 - Gulf of St. Vincent 7.17.1854 - Benjamin Franklin 7.17.1894 - Emma T. Crowell 7.22.1916 - Clan Garbraith 7.22.1919 - Charles E. Dunlap 7.26.1884 - Ohio |
August
8.2.1908 - Radway 8.7.1778 - Cerberus 8.17.1909 - Arlington 8.19.1894 - General Knox 8.24.1893 - Panther & Lykens Valley 8.25.1901 - Eliza A Scribner 8.26.1898 - USS Prairie 8.27.1862 - Great Eastern 8.29.1893 - Martha P Tucker, C. Henry Kirk |
September
9.1.1951 - Pelican 9.3.1879 - Halcyon 9.8.1869 - Mary Milnes 9.11.1899 - Arrow 9.11.1901 - Lucy W. Snow 9.13. 1882 - Independente 9.16.1889 - Vertumnus 9.17.1893 - David Carll Pilot Boat 4 9.17.1921 - Malden 9.20.1899 - Ellen 9.21.1896 - Emma Southard |
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November
11.10.1888 - Iberia 11.12.1911 - Edith E. Dennis 11.21.1836 - Bristol 11.23.1780 - HMS Hussar 11.23-25.1830 - Vineyard 11.27.1846 - SS Atlantic |
December
12.3.1902 - Alice Reed 12.11-29.1876 - Circassian 12.17.1904 - Glen Island 12.24.1912 - Copy 12.26.1904 - Drumelzier |
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Storms
August 1893 Hurricanes 11.27.1898 - Portland Storm 09.21.1938 - The Great New England Hurricane of 1938 |
Want to learn more about these and other Shipwrecks?
Visit the Long Island Maritime Museum
and check out our Interactive Shipwreck Exhibit located in our Main Building.
Visit the Long Island Maritime Museum
and check out our Interactive Shipwreck Exhibit located in our Main Building.