Joffre (shipwreck)

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Joffre (shipwreck)
Shipwreck of the Joffre.jpg
Part of the wreck
Nearest city Gloucester, Massachusetts
Built1918 (1918)
NRHP reference No. 08000887 [1]
Significant dates
Sank1947
Added to NRHPJanuary 16, 2009

The Joffre is a 20th-century shipwreck lying in the waters of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was a schooner built in 1912 in Essex, Massachusetts. Active in the Gloucester fishery, she first used tub trawls for fishing, and was converted to an eastern rig dragger (a type of trawler) and motorized in 1939. She was returning to Gloucester when her engine caught fire on the evening of August 9, 1947. The wheelhouse was engulfed, the crew abandoned ship, and she sank the next day. [2] The wreck was documented by a Stellwagen Bank survey team in 2006. [3]

The wreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Joffre". Stellwagen Bank NMS. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
  3. 1 2 "NOAA's Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary shipwreck Joffre listed on National Register of Historic Places". NOAA. Retrieved 2013-12-24.