![]() ![]() For more information on the original discovery go to, /2013-unidentified-1 She is also in the location that it was thought to be lost. The length and width are exactly the same as the Maggie Hunter. All the debris that washed ashore during that time matches what is missing off this vessel as well as the measurements. They we're unable to identify it at the time but we believe it is the wreck of the Maggie Hunter. Based on our investigation it appears that it is a vessel that Dan Scoville & Chris Koberstein found July 2013. Further sonar surveys of the area are currently being done to determine if another vessel is in the area. We believe that whatever vessel struck this schooner in the port side may have also sunk and could be nearby. We spent over six hours above the wreck site that day and the video we took produced 8,377 photographs to do this 3-D model. It was obvious to us that this is the reason why this vessel went down not due to the bad weather that night. After further investigation with the ROV it was noted that it appears to have been involved in a collision with another vessel striking her port side. The schooner is setting up right on the bottom of the lake. ![]() Much to our surprise it turned out to be remarkably intact. We returned to the site on Septemto explore the wreck site. Because of the depth of the water the only way the site could be reached was with a ROV, (Remote operated vehicle). Tim Caza and Dennis Gerber came across this two masts schooner in Lake Ontario on Augwhile doing a sonar survey. Two mast schooner believed to be the Maggie Hunter that sunk on Oct. We used 3,413 photographs to produce all the 3-D images of the Cormorant. We returned to the site of the Cormorant on Jto do some photogrammetry work with it. Since the discovery in 1996 there have been many experienced divers that have visited the tug Cormorant. Depending on the time of the year, the average depth of the Cormorant site is 135 feet. They later put two divers down, Peter Tombollio & Walt Ciesla, who identified and photographed the tug boat. In 1996 Tim Shippee, Doug Low, Peter Tombollio and Robert Kutzleb were surveying the area and found the Cormorant with sonar. The crew survived by hanging onto a tractor tire that they retrieved when crossing the lake. Lawerence River when just 3 miles NE of Oswego she was swamped by a large wave. The Cormorant was returning from work on the St. The tug was repurchased by Merrit, Chapman & Scottt who renamed the tug Cormorant. The entry can be found here.This tug boat was built in 1941 and in 1949 it was renamed the Russell 4 and was sold to the Newton Creek Towing Company of New York. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.She served with the Naval Militia at San Diego, California from 1898 to January 2, 1908, when she was struck from the Naval Vessel Register. ![]() Pinta returned to Mare Island Navy Yard on July 17, 1897, and decommissioned there on August 4, 1897. Among the Alaskan ports she frequently visited were: Fort Wrangel, Fort Rupert, Port Simpson, Port Protection, Port Chester, William Henry, Juneau, Killisnoo, Ketchikan, Shakan, Loring, Hoonah, and Killimo. She returned to her home port, Sitka, on October 17, 1889, and continued to engage in patrol operations in the Bering Sea. She patrolled Alaskan waters protecting the seal fisheries until April 10, 1889, when she sailed for the Mare Island Navy Yard for repairs. Overhauled at the Norfolk Navy Yard from 1881 until February 24, 1883, in preparation for duty off Alaska, Pinta arrived Sitka, Alaska, and relieved Adams on August 17, 1884. She decommissioned at Norfolk Navy Yard on April 15, 1876, and was laid up there until reactivated as a yard tug in 1878. ![]() She recommissioned at Philadelphia on November 22, 1873, and operated out of Key West on various duties including messenger service, naval drill in Florida Bay and towing and freight services. 1866–1876 Įxcept for a period in ordinary during 1867, Pinta served on harbor duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1866 until laid up in 1872. Coontz (far right), who would later rise to Chief of Naval Operations. Service history Ships officers off Sitka, Alaska in 1889. USS Pinta was an iron-hulled screw tug of the United States Navy, launched on October 29, 1864, by Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania, completed in October 1865, and commissioned there. Reaney, Son & Archbold, Chester, Pennsylvania USS Pinta in Juneau Harbor, Alaska, in 1889 ![]()
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