Long Island & the New York Approaches
The doorway to the busiest harbor in America
Everything bound for New York crossed the shoals and bars off Long Island and Sandy Hook.
Traffic density is the hazard here as much as the sandbars: converging steamer tracks, fog off Montauk, and a south shore of shifting outer bars where a vessel driven ashore breaks up quickly. Wartime added submarine attacks in both world wars. The result is a coast lined with wrecks from immigrant liners to coal schooners, many of them well known to divers.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableAlice Reed
AH-WR-0998East Hampton, Long Island, New York
Sources reviewed place the loss in 1902 near East Hampton but do not agree on an exact date. · Bark (or Barque)
AvailableAtlantic
AH-WR-0644Fishers Island, New York
1846 · Paddle Steamer · 20 ft deep
AvailableBessie White
AH-WR-0527Fire Island, New York
1922 · Schooner
AvailableBristol
AH-WR-0638Far Rockaway, Long Island, New York
1836 · Packet Ship
Historical ListingBronx Queen
AH-WR-0766Breezy Point, Rockaway, New York
1989 · Submarine Chaser, Later Party Fishing Boat · 35 ft deep
AvailableCharlie Hickman
AH-WR-0995Moriches, Long Island, New York
1884 · Brig
AvailableCircassian
AH-WR-0041Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York
1876 · Cargo Ship
AvailableCornelia Soule
AH-WR-0339Rockaway, Long Island, New York
1902 · Schooner · 25 ft deep
AvailableDrumelzier
AH-WR-0769Fire Island, Long Island, New York
1904 · Freighter · 20 ft deep
AvailableElizabeth
AH-WR-0337Point O'Woods, Fire Island, New York
1850 · Bark
AvailableFannie J. Bartlett
AH-WR-0997Napeague, Long Island, New York
1894 · Schooner
RegisteredGate City
AH-WR-0771Moriches, Long Island, New York
1900 · Steamer · 20-25 deep
AvailableGlen Island
AH-WR-0765Glen Cove, Long Island, New York
1904 · Passenger Steamer · 15-25 deep
AvailableGluckauf
AH-WR-0338Davis Park, Fire Island, New York
1893 · Tanker
AvailableGrecian
AH-WR-0529South of Block Island, near eastern Long Island Sound approaches
1932 · Passenger-Freighter · 95 ft deep
AvailableGwendoline Steers
AH-WR-0706Huntington Bay, New York
1962 · Tugboat · 20-55 deep
Historical ListingHMS Culloden
AH-WR-0640Culloden Point, Montauk, New York
1781 · Ship Of The Line · 20-25 deep
Historical ListingHMS Sylph
AH-WR-0993Shinnecock Bar, Southampton, New York
1815 · Brig-Sloop Of War
AvailableHylton Castle
AH-WR-0531Off Jones Inlet, Long Island, New York
1886 · Freight Steamer · 95 deep
AvailableJohn B. Manning
AH-WR-0649Fire Island, New York (between Lone Hill and Blue Point)
1895 · Schooner
AvailableJohn C. Fitzpatrick
AH-WR-0528Long Island, New York
1903 · Schooner Barge · 130 ft deep
AvailableJohn Milton
AH-WR-0648Ditch Plains, Montauk, New York
1858 · Ship
AvailableLarchmont
AH-WR-0530Block Island Sound, near eastern Long Island Sound
1907 · Passenger Steamer
AvailableLewis A. King
AH-WR-0996Turtle Cove, Montauk Point, New York
1887 · Schooner
AvailableLexington
AH-WR-0040Eatons Neck, Long Island, New York
1840 · Steamboat · 140 ft deep
AvailableLizzie D
AH-WR-0764Atlantic Beach Inlet, Long Island, New York
1922 · Tugboat · 80 ft deep
AvailableLouis V. Place
AH-WR-0108Fire Island, New York
1895 · Schooner
AvailableLykens Valley
AH-WR-0642Shinnecock Bay, Long Island, New York
1893 · Barge
AvailableMexico
AH-WR-0639Long Beach, Long Island, New York
1837 · Bark
AvailableNorness
AH-WR-0646Montauk Point, Long Island, New York
1942 · Motor Tanker
AvailablePanther
AH-WR-0641Shinnecock Inlet, Long Island, New York
1893 · Tugboat · 55 ft deep
AvailablePelican
AH-WR-1000Montauk Point, New York
1951 · Fishing Vessel
AvailablePeter Rickmers
AH-WR-0341Jones Beach, Long Island, New York
1908 · Sailing Ship
AvailablePrince Maurice
AH-WR-0994Fire Island, New York
1657 · Dutch Colonial Merchant Ship
RegisteredRoda
AH-WR-0773Tobay Beach, Long Island, New York
1908 · Freighter · 18-20 deep
AvailableSeawanhaka
AH-WR-0643Ward's Island, New York City
1880 · Paddle Steamer
AvailableSS Coimbra
AH-WR-0342Shinnecock, Long Island, New York
1942 · Tanker · 165-190 deep
AvailableSS Iberia
AH-WR-0705Long Beach, New York
1888 · Steamer · 60 ft deep
AvailableSS Oregon
AH-WR-0106Fire Island, New York
1886 · Ocean Liner · 85-130 deep
AvailableSS Savannah
AH-WR-0647Fire Island, New York
1821 · Sailing Ship (Formerly Hybrid Steamship)
AvailableSS Sommerstad
AH-WR-0768Fire Island, New York
1918 · Freighter · 170-180 deep
AvailableStolt Dagali
AH-WR-0343Point Pleasant, New Jersey
1964 · Tanker · 60-130 deep
Historical ListingU-853
AH-WR-0645Point Judith, Rhode Island
1945 · Submarine · 130 ft deep
Historical ListingUSS S-51
AH-WR-0042Block Island, Rhode Island
1925 · Submarine · 132 ft deep
Historical ListingUSS San Diego
AH-WR-0107Fire Island, New York
1918 · Armored Cruiser · 110 ft deep
Historical ListingUSS SC-209
AH-WR-0772South of Long Island, New York
1918 · Submarine Chaser
Historical ListingUSS Tarantula
AH-WR-0770Jones Inlet, Long Island, New York
1918 · Patrol Yacht · 115 ft deep
Historical ListingUSS Turner
AH-WR-0043Sandy Hook, New Jersey / New York Harbor approaches
1944 · Destroyer
AvailableW T Bell
AH-WR-1446Oak Neck, Bayville, New York
1927 · Schooner
AvailableWilliam H. Aspinwall
AH-WR-0340Long Island, New York
1880 · Pilot Boat
AvailableWilliam T. Bell
AH-WR-0999Oak Neck, Bayville, New York
1927 · Schooner
