Boston Harbor & Massachusetts Bay
The approaches, the islands and Broad Sound
Boston Harbor and the bay beyond it funnelled three centuries of Atlantic traffic past Boston Light, the Graves and the harbor islands.
Winter gales driving onto the outer ledges produced some of New England's worst losses, among them the immigrant brig Saint John and the Portland Gale fleet.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableAgnes
AH-WR-1841Boston Fish Pier, Boston, Massachusetts
1923 · Fishing Schooner
AvailableAngie L. Marshall
AH-WR-1837Lovells Island, Boston Harbor
February 1921 in the loss index; February 23 account heading gives no year and describes grounding on Sunday night, exact loss day not established. · Fishing Schooner
AvailableBaleen
AH-WR-1098Graves Light, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts
1975 · Tug · 170 ft deep
AvailableCalifornia
AH-WR-1822Cohasset, Massachusetts
January 1857; exact casualty day not established. · Full-Rigged Ship
AvailableCox and Green
AH-WR-1103Toddy Rocks, Hull, Massachusetts
1888 · Schooner
AvailableCoyote
AH-WR-1093Boston, Massachusetts
1932 · Steam Freighter · 155-175 deep
AvailableDavis Palmer
AH-WR-1096Graves Light, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts
1909 · Schooner · 30-40 deep
AvailableDelaware
AH-WR-1100North Scituate, Massachusetts
1898 · Schooner Barge · 60 ft deep
AvailableForest Queen
AH-WR-1092Scituate, Massachusetts
1853 · Full-Rigged Ship · 20-30 deep
AvailableHenry Endicott
AH-WR-1623Off Manomet Point, Plymouth
1939 · Schooner Barge
AvailableHerbert
AH-WR-1097Nahant, Massachusetts
1924 · Lighter · 100 ft deep
AvailableHeroic
AH-WR-1941Gloucester, Massachusetts
1969 · Fishing Trawler · 100 ft deep
AvailableJosephine Marie
AH-WR-1801Provincetown, Massachusetts
1992 · Fishing Trawler · 105 ft deep
AvailableKenwood
AH-WR-1099Scituate, Massachusetts
1926 · Schooner · 10 ft deep
AvailableKing Philip
AH-WR-1094Boston, Massachusetts
1935 · Excursion Steamer · 230 ft deep
AvailableKiowa
AH-WR-1694Boston Light, Massachusetts
1903 · Freighter · 30–45 (BUAR listing; not a new survey) deep
AvailableMaritana
AH-WR-1102Boston Light, Massachusetts
1861 · Full-Rigged Ship
AvailableMars
AH-WR-1627East of Manomet Point
1942 · Steam Tug
AvailableMary E. O'Hara
AH-WR-1632Outer Boston Harbor, east of Finn’s Ledge
1941 · Fishing Schooner
AvailableNancy
AH-WR-1101Hull, Massachusetts
1927 · Schooner
AvailableNeptune
AH-WR-1845Boston Lightship approaches, Massachusetts
1945 · Fishing Dragger
AvailableNorth Star
AH-WR-1800Provincetown, Massachusetts
2003 · Fishing Vessel
AvailablePentagoet
AH-WR-1942Truro, Massachusetts
1898 · Steamship
AvailableRomance
AH-WR-1630Broad Sound, north of Graves Light
1936 · Passenger Steamer
Historical ListingUSS Eagle Boat No. 42 (PE-42)
AH-WR-1095Boston Light, Massachusetts
1931 · Patrol Craft · 240 ft deep
