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Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Panama City GPS Coordinates This twin-screw steamer powered by twin compound engines was built in 1887 in Wilmington, Delaware and launched as the Naugatuck. She had an iron hull, was 130 feet in length and had a 26-foot beam. In 1889 she was sold to Henry B. Plant…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Panama City GPS Coordinates This 150 foot long old tar barge sits in 20 feet of water on the northwest corner of Shell Island inside St. Andrews Bay near the Spanish Shanty cove (hence the wreck’s name). She holds a good assortment of marine life including sheepshead, banded…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Panama City GPS Coordinates This ship was originally named the United States Revenue Cutter Samuel Dexter and was built in Boston in 1874. She was 144 feet long, had a 23-foot beam and two masts with topsail rigs. She also had a 400-horsepower compound engine. Revenue cutters originated…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Panama City GPS Coordinates The tugboat, E. E. Simpson was built in Philadelphia in 1877 and named in honor of the founder of the E. E. Simpson Bank of Pensacola. The tug was 93 feet in length, with a 20-foot beam. The Simpson was frequently seen chugging up…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Panama City GPS Coordinates This artificial reef is named “Black Bart” in memorial to Captain Charles Bartholomew who was the Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage in Panama City for many years. Capt. Bart was an avid sport diver who worked diligently on many joint artificial reefs between the Navy…

Fast Facts: Features: Need Gear? Download all Panama City GPS Coordinates The Benjamin H. Grierson is one of many Liberty Ships that were quickly built around the U.S. during World War II. The Grierson was built in 1943 by the Oregon Ship Building Corporation in Portland, Oregon. Many Liberty Ships were named for officers of…