Another pre-WW I underwater relic

George Kaplan · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2004 6:47 am

To follow up the recent posting about the remains of the early battleship USS Massaschusets off Florida, here's another U.S. maritime relic in our coastal waters. See the link below.
There are also a lot of railroad cars dumped off our coasts as fishery habitats! Some of the Judge Hofheinz (sp?) collection of passenger cars went into the Gulf of Mexico. NY Transit cars have been dumped in the Atlantic as well.
I wonder what else is out there?

USS San Diego

Kevin Gillespie · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2004 8:35 am

> I wonder what else is out there?

The battleship USS Texas of the Spanish American War as sunk in a gunnery exercise in Chesapeake Bay. This happened in approximately 1912. Fortunately the next Texas (BB-35) was luckier and is the sold surviving first generation dreadnought anywhere.

kevin.r.gillespie@verizon.net

David Forsyth · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2004 7:47 pm

How about a dozen of the Pacific Electrics 10000 series, loaded onto barges,towed 1/2 mile out to sea and sunk off Redondo Beach,CA.

Forsyth63@yahoo.com

James F. Boylan · **Posted:** Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:03 pm

> a dozen of the Pacific Electrics 10000 series, 1/2 mile out to sea off Redondo Beach,CA. <

Reports to Artificial Reef groups state they lasted less than 10 years.

TyburnRR@cs.com

Brian Norden · **Posted:** Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:55 pm

> How about a dozen of the Pacific Electrics
> 10000 series, loaded onto barges,towed 1/2
> mile out to sea and sunk off Redondo
> Beach,CA.

The PE 10000 series sounds like a box car series. I don't believe that any PE cars were dumped off the coast. Now, there were some Los Angeles railway streetcars did go into the drink.

Brian Norden