200-Year-Old Wreck Off Watch Hill

[Soundbounder]

For 2 centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England’s southern coast.

Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe: that the sunken ship off the coast of Rhode Island is the USS Revenge, commanded by Oliver Hazard Perry and lost on a stormy January day in 1811.

http://boatinglocal.com/news/200-yea...ed-off-ri.html

[Figment]

A "treacherous reef" a mile from Watch Hill?

[skuthorp]

The Revenge, now there's a ship's name to play with. A good friend, now passed, was a descendent of Sir Richard Grenville.
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com...e/default.aspx

Are they going to excavate or just mark the wreck for protection from looters?

[Irv Mac Dowell]

Sugar Reef?

Best regards,

Irv

[Soundbounder]

A "treacherous reef" a mile from Watch Hill?

Look at a chart of the waters between the eastern tip of Fishers Island and Watch Hill

[Soundbounder]

Sugar Reef?

That's my guess

[Rob Hazard]

Good spot for kayak surfing, probably good for stripers... not so good for a ship, though.

[Soundbounder]

Good spot for kayak surfing, probably good for stripers... not so good for a ship, though.

Have you seen this ?

[SMARTINSEN]

http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/13214.shtml

Pretty bony in through there.

[Rob Hazard]

That's gotta be Nick Schade under that helmet cam. Good fun!

[Breakaway]

Good spot for kayak surfing, probably good for stripers..

TOG! Big, white-chinned tautog in there, boy!

Kevin

[Bill Perkins]

http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/13214.shtml

Pretty bony in through there.

Thanks for the chart , it's fun to look at what were my home waters growing up . We went through Watch Hill Passage many times in thick fog ; listening intently for that gong marking Watch Hill Reef.

[Figment]

Oh I've gone rockpicking through there a few times, yes.

I find it amazing that anything in that stretch of water can go undiscovered for 2 years, let alone 200!

[Bill Perkins]

I had the same thought . It seems that divers would have worked around all those rocks long since ; looking for lobster if nothing else.