The New Jersey Shipwreck Series
Perasto-1839
The Austrian brig came ashore on Long Beach Island, south of Barnegat Light in the early morning of 13 August 1839. Although only thirteen crewmembers were lost in the disaster, the influence of the calamity contributed to the creation in the U.S. Congress the New Jersey Lifesaving Service.
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John Minturn-1846
1845 was a quiet along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States; no hurricanes or tropical storms recorded or reported. But the residents along the coast knew it was an aberration; Mother Nature keeps a ledger and things need to balance out over time.
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Great Isaac–1947
The ocean-going tug Great Isaac tows a WWII Liberty Ship north of the New Jersey coast towards the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A dense fog descends near Barnegat where a freighter heads southbound. The three met early in the morning.
The collision and wreck is one story. But two other much larger connections to U.S. and world history are revealed.
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HMS Zebra-1777
The British Royal Navy under Lord Cornwallis dispatches seventy-one vessels to the coasts of New York and New Jersey to crush the efforts of the revolutionaries.
The HMS Zebra served as the the flagship for the squadron but things will not go as planned once they reached Egg Harbor.
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Stolt-Dagali-1964
The Stolt-Dagali collided with the Israel passenger luxury liner SS Shalom, eighteen miles east of Point Pleasant in November 1964.
The Shalom’s bow crashed into and sliced through the Stolt Dagali’s port side sheering off her stern. The Dagali’s 145-foot stern sank immediately killing 19 crew members instantly.
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