The vessel
Show on the chart- Type
- Dredge Barge
- Built
- 1901 at Port Richond, N.Y
- Size
- 80' x 28' x 7.1'
- Gross tonnage
- 2304
- Net tonnage
- 292
- Owner
- Arundel & Monkers Construction Company Baltimore, Maryland
- Cargo
- Coal
- Date lost
- Friday, June 27, 1930
- Cause of loss
- Sprung a leak
- PHMC site number
- 36ER0338 ( http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/ ) The Story of the Loss The Patapsco was built for the B & O Railroad Company, and her first home port was Baltimore, Maryland. In the early 1930's, the Sommerheim Water Intake was built west of the Presque Isle Peninsula to supply water to the City of Erie, Pennsylvania. The Patapsco was working on the project when she went to the bottom. The March
Position 42.13138, -80.15160 (as charted by RSC, from the Regional Science Consortium shipwreck map)
Recorded location: 42.13138, -80.1516 West side of Presque Isle, 5.8 miles at 50 T from Walnut creek, Pennsylvania entrance