boat mishap!!

[DEMON]

Last time I saw it, the pole was there but bent over below the water like someone hit it! Go there on a low tide (1' or less & it will be visible above the water. If not, you'll see it just below. My Garmin GPS map shows it as an obstruction. Maybe we need to broadcast its whereabouts to the local scrap yards. With the price of scrap these days maybe some scrapper will go out there and haul it to the hill.

[Gulf Coast]

Sounds like a job for Leroy !!

[Jumptrout51]

Futch. If your coming out of the channel it is to the left just before you hit the river channel. It used to be marked with a PVC pipe, but it is gone. We fished it a few weeks ago looking for sheephead and the pipe was gone. At low tide it is visible, not at high tide.I think it has been there for as long as I've fished the area(7yrs). I marked it On my gps last time and may be able to pull the numbers up. It is a nasty obstruction.

The first time I saw it was 1954.

[Sea Dawg]

JT Your sure old then if you seen it in 1954

[tallykenj]

That sunken boat is huge. You can see it underwater on Google Earth. The current GE images were taken at low tide and reveal a lot. I know the boat is there but I wish someone would mark it again with PVC or something else. It seems like a very bad place for people launching at the lighthouse ramp.

[FUTCHCAIRO]

THE FIRST TIME I SAW THAT WRECK WAS BACK IN THE 40'S. I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS A SUB THAT SANK BACK IN WORLD WAR 1 , I CAN NOT REMEMBER WHO TOLD ME THAT, I THINK HIS NAME WAS MUDRA BUT NOT SURE.
PA
SEMPER FI

[woopty]

Found this...

Not far from Spanish Hole lie the remains of a small vessel which is visible
at low tide. In 1928, a ship anchored off Long Bar, west of the lighthouse, caught
fire and burned, according to the late Alton Gresham.
Gresham’s father, John Y. Gresham, was the lighthouse keeper at
the time. The elder Gresham attempted to tow the remains up the St. Marks River,
but the boat ran aground and sank.
The vessel may have been the former
World War I sub chaser that had been
purchased by the Florida Shellfish Commission and renamed Dispatch.
Underrwater archaeologists from Florida State
University studied the site in 1998 but
could not find conclusive evidence that
would identify the vessel as the sub chaser.

http://www.stmarksrefuge.org/history/SpanishHole.pdf

[DEMON]

There you have it. Sounds like the Florida Shellfish Commission needs to come get their damn boat!

[DEMON]

Good work on the history there Woopty. I've always wondered about that wreck.

[DEMON]

Good work on the history there Woopty. I've always wondered about that wreck.

[tallykenj]

Woopty, nice find.

[Harmsway]

Guess I'll have to stop calling it the sunken shrimp boat. Thanks for sharing, Woopty.

[woopty]

I had heard for years that it was a sunken barge, but when I saw the latest Google maps shot, it's obvious it's a ship hull.
When I asked a Woodville buddy of mine, he said it was a military ship. Come close to hitting it a couple times since the marker disappeared.

[sundown]

Allen Hobbs at Shell Island told that me it was an old dredge boat. Someone else told me also that it had been a dredge boat that lost a boiler and grounded.