Divers find 1903 shipwreck near Block Island

Boston Globe ^ | December 23, 2008

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A group of divers says it has found the wreckage of a schooner that collided with a steamship and sank in 1903 near Block Island, R.I.

Mark Munro of Griswold, Conn., said his Sound Underwater Survey group and the Baccala Wreck Divers began looking for the remains of the Jennie R. Dubois in 2002, searching a few times a year in an area that eventually stretched to 17 square miles.

The group positively identified the shipwreck in September 2007, but kept it a secret until Monday so more research could be done and others interested in the ship couldn't claim the find, Munro said.

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The sea holds many tales....arhhhhh

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Mystic Seaport, Accession number: 1983.77.15, File name: IMG0098-4170.PCD

Built: Holmes Ship Building Company, West Mystic Connecticut
Keel laid: April, 1901
Dimensions: 249' x 46' x 26.9'
Tonnage: 1952 net, 2227 gross
Cost: $100,000
Launched: February 11, 1902
Sunk: September 5, 1903
Cause of sinking: Collision with S.S. Schoenfels

    On February 11th, 1902, in West Mystic, Connecticut, the largest coasting schooner built outside of the Maine shipyards slid down the ways of the Holmes Shipbuilding Company. Nineteen months later the Jennie R. Dubois, sunk in a collision with the Steamship Schoenfels, was resting on the sandy bottom southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island. Once cleared as a menace to navigation, the Dubois was lost to history and her location remained unknown to local divers and historians. Join me, Mark Munro, in this presentation on the recently discovered secrets of the five-masted coasting schooner Jennie R. Dubois.
 

You are cordially invited to attend a public presentation on the Jennie R. Dubois

February 11th, 2009
Seven o’clock in the evening
Mystic Yachting Center, Mystic Shipyard, West Mystic Connecticut

Closed Chock

The stockless anchor still in it's hawse pipe