Long Island Sound & the Connecticut Shore
From the Race to the Connecticut River
The Sound was a protected highway between New York and New England, worked by night steamers, coasting schooners and oyster fleets.
Its tidal races, fog and reefs at the eastern entrance made for frequent collisions and boiler casualties, among them the Lexington fire of 1840.
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Records in These Waters
AvailableAllan Gurney
AH-WR-1144New Haven, Connecticut
1900 · Schooner
AvailableBerkshire No. 7
AH-WR-1142Bridgeport Harbor, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Exact date in 1974 not established in the sources reviewed. · Canal Barge
AvailableEagle
AH-WR-1452Essex, Connecticut, on the lower Connecticut River
1814 · Privateer Schooner
AvailableElmer S. Dailey
AH-WR-1143Bridgeport Harbor, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Exact date in 1974 not established in the sources reviewed. · Canal Barge
AvailableFair American
AH-WR-1440New London, Connecticut
1782 · Privateer Brig
AvailableGranite State
AH-WR-1139Goodspeed's Landing, East Haddam, Connecticut
1883 · Passenger Sidewheel Steamer
AvailableIsabel
AH-WR-1137Shippan Point, Stamford, Connecticut
1915 · Passenger Steamer · 20 ft deep
Historical ListingLight Vessel LV-51
AH-WR-1140Cornfield Point, Old Saybrook, Connecticut
1919 · Lightship · 190 ft deep
AvailableOscar C. Aiken
AH-WR-1134Goshen Point, Waterford, Connecticut
1898 · Schooner · 70 ft deep
AvailablePoling Brothers No. 2
AH-WR-1138Great Captain Island, Greenwich, Connecticut
1940 · Small Tanker · 60-68 deep
AvailablePriscilla Dailey
AH-WR-1141Bridgeport Harbor, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Exact date in 1974 not established in the sources reviewed. · Canal Barge
AvailableSS Narragansett
AH-WR-1135Cornfield Point, Old Saybrook, Connecticut
1880 · Passenger Sidewheel Steamer
AvailableWashington
AH-WR-1136Stratford, Connecticut
1831 · Sidewheel Steamer · 60 ft deep
AvailableYoung Anaconda
AH-WR-1418Essex, Connecticut
1814 · Privateer
