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See USS Corry (DD-334), Napa River, California
USS Corry (DD-334) was a United States NavyClemson-class destroyer launched and commissioned in 1921. The remains of the ship were then towed in 2930 to and abandoned as break wall in the Napa River (near mouth of American Canyon Creek just north of Slaughterhouse Point) where she remains. Corrywas launched on 28 March 1921 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, San F... -
See USS Inaugural (AM-242), St. Louis, Missouri
USS Inaugural (AM-242) was an Admirable-class fleet minesweeper. The Admirable class was the largest and one of the most successful classes of U.S. minesweepers ordered during World War II. Inaugural was launched on 1 October 1944 and commissioned less than three months later. After seeing combat in the Pacific Theater, she was decommissioned in 1946 a... -
Dive USS Kittiwake (ASR-13), Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman
Dive USS Kittiwake was a United States Navy Chanticleer-class submarine rescue vessel in commission from 1946 to 1994. On 23 April 1984, Kittiwake collided with the attack submarine USS Bergall (SSN-667) at Norfolk, Virginia, while Bergall was moored to the pier astern of her. Kittiwake was getting underway for the first time since she had undergone maintenance, durin... -
Wreck Dive USS LST 349, Ponza, Italy
The USS LST 349 was sunk on 26 February 1944 after running aground of Isola di Ponza , Italy. The bow is at 26m and the stern at 20m. -
Wreck Dive USS Macaw (ASR-11), Midway Atoll
The was a Chanticleer-class submarine rescue ship in the United States Navy. Macaw was laid down 15 October 1941 by the Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, California; launched 12 July 1942; sponsored by Miss Valnessa Easton of Berkeley, Calif.; and commissioned exactly one year later, Lt. Comdr. Paul Willits Burton in command. Departing California 28 August 1943, after shak... -
Wreck Dive USS Monitor, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the Union Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, the first such ship commissioned by the Navy. Monitor played a central role in the Battle of Hampton Roads on 9 March under the command of Lieutenant John L. Worden, where she fought the casemate ironclad CSS Virginia (built on the hull of ... -
Wreck Dive USS Oriskany (CV-34), Pensacola, Florida
USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) – nicknamed Mighty O, The O-boat, and Toasted O was deliberately sunk off the Florida coast near Pensacola in 2004, and now functions as the world’s largest artificial reef. She was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. The Times of London named the Oriska... -
See USS Sachem Ruins, Boone County, Kentucky
USSPhenakite(PYc-25) was built 1902 as the yachtCeltby Pusey and Jones, Wilmington, Delaware, for J. Rogers Maxwell, a railroad executive. It was launched on April 12, 1902. Shortly after the United States' entry into the First World War, it was acquired by the US Navy on July 3, 1917. The ship was placed in service as USSSachem(SP 192) on August 19 and used as a Coas... -
Wreck Dive USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32), Key Largo, Florida
USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Spiegel Grove, the home and estate in Fremont, Ohio, of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States. Spiegel Grove was decommissioned 2 October 1989 and her name struck from the Navy list on 13 December 1989. The vessel was transferred to th... -
Wreck Dive USS Tarpon (SS-175), Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
USS Tarpon (SS-175), second ship of this name, was laid down on 22 December 1933 at Groton, Connecticut, by the Electric Boat Corporation; launched on 4 September 1935; sponsored by Miss Eleanore Katherine Roosevelt, daughter of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt; and commissioned on 12 March 1936, Lt. Leo L. Pace (Class of 1921) in command. Tarponoper... -
See USS Thompson (DD-305) (South Bay Wreck), San Francisco Bay, California
USS Thompson (DD-305), aClemson-class destroyer of the U.S. Navy named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), never saw action against an enemy. She was the first Navy ship of that name; the second,Thompson (DD-627), named for Robert M. Thompson, served during World War II and the Korean War. The keel of the firstThompsonwas laid down... -
See USS Washtenaw County, Columbia River, Rainier, Oregon
was a Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ship in commission in the United States Navy from 1953 to 1973. Named for Washtenaw County, Michigan, she was the only U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. It is currently derelict. In October 2008, it was reported to be at the southeastern tip of Lord Island on the Columbia River in Rainier, Oregon at 46°07′18″... -
See USS YO-21 Shipwreck, Awalua beach, Lanai, Hawaii
US Navy yard oiler YO-21, a massive Navy yard oiler that had been docked at Pearl Harbor during the 1941 attack. The YO-21 was 160-foot single-screw steel tanker with a triple expansion steam engine. the vessel was intentionally grounded by the military sometime in the 1950’s. YO-21 was built in Newburgh, New York by the Tank Shipbuilding Co. in 1918 and subseq... -
Wreck Dive USS YO-257, Oahu, Hawaii
USS YO-257 was a Yard Oiler of the United States Navy that was scuttled two miles off Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989. Built in the 1940s,YO-257saw action in World War II, the Korean War, and in the Vietnam War. From 16 September to 12 November 1963 the ship was temporarily loaned to the Coast Guard to assist in the construction of a LORAN radio navigation station i... -
See USS YOGN-42 Shipwreck, Lanai, Hawaii
was a gasoline barge built by Concrete Ship Constructors, in National City, California. She was launched on March 23, 1943. Acquired by the United States Navy on May 23, 1943. She was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, and survived the war. Re-designatedYOGN-42in May 1946, she was struck from the Naval Register on August 15, 1949. Sometime the next year, she was...
