The Isles of Shoals & the New Hampshire Coast

Portsmouth, the Piscataqua and the outer ledges

Gulf of Maine · New Hampshire · United States

New Hampshire's short coast and the Isles of Shoals guarded the approach to Portsmouth and the Piscataqua, one of New England's great shipbuilding rivers.

The Shoals' ledges and the strong Piscataqua tide wrecked coasters and fishermen for three centuries, and the 1813 loss of the Sagunto is still remembered on Smuttynose.

Records in These Waters

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Camilla May Page

AH-WR-1166

Jerry's Point, New Castle, New Hampshire

1928 · Schooner · 15 ft deep

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Lizzie Carr

AH-WR-1165

Wallis Sands Beach / Pirate's Cove, Rye, New Hampshire

1905 · Schooner

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Sagunto

AH-WR-1161

Smuttynose Island, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire

1813 · Frigate

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Samuel J. Goucher

AH-WR-1167

Duck Island, Isles of Shoals

1911 · Schooner

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SS William H. Machen

AH-WR-1164

White Island, Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire

1942 · Freighter · 300 ft deep

Historical Listing

USS O-9

AH-WR-1162

Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire

1941 · Submarine · 430 ft deep

Historical Listing

USS Squalus

AH-WR-1163

Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire

1939 · Submarine · 240 ft deep