Heroic
Fishing Trawler · Lost 1969 · Boston Harbor & Massachusetts Bay
A wartime Navy minesweeper turned Gloucester trawler, Heroic burned and sank on Stellwagen Bank in 1969.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Built in 1941 at Warren, Rhode Island, as the wooden coastal minesweeper USS Heroic (AMc-84), she swept Chesapeake Bay during World War II and was decommissioned in 1945. As the Boston fishing vessel Elizabeth B. and later Heroic of Gloucester, she fished New England waters. On August 21, 1969, bound for Georges Bank, she caught fire in the engine room; her five crew were rescued by the West German trawler Tiko I, and she sank on Stellwagen Bank.
Vessel
- 1941
- Former US Navy AMc-84
- Warren Boatyard
- Rhode Island
- Wood
- 97 ft
- Not established
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- Diesel
- Not established
Loss
- August 21, 1969
- Fire
- Stellwagen Bank, about 25 miles northwest of Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Atlantic Ocean (Massachusetts Bay)
- Gloucester, Massachusetts → Georges Bank fishing grounds
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- 0
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The Wreck Today
- 100 ft
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- Within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Position
- 42.40° N 70.45° W
- Approximate position
- Gloucester, Massachusetts
NOAA sanctuary-published wreck position; displayed rounded.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Documented (85/100)
Her Navy service ended in 1945; she was a civilian fishing vessel when lost.
NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary — Heroic
Ship stats, wreck position, service and loss narrative read; underlying records not independently inspected.
