Lamartine (shipwreck)
Lamartine | |
Granite from the ship's cargo lies on the seafloor | |
Nearest city | Gloucester, Massachusetts |
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Built | 1848 |
Architectural style | No Style Listed |
Governing body | Federal |
NRHP Reference # | 12000067[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 7, 2012 |
The Lamartine is a 19th-century shipwreck lying in the waters of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was a schooner builtin 1848 in Camden, Maine. She was hauling quarried granite from Stonington, Maine to New York City when she went down in a storm on May 17, 1893. One crewmember drowned; the others were rescued by a fishing vessel that saw the ship sinking.[2] The wreck was located in 2004 by a survey team, documented over the next two years.[3]
The wreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.[2]
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Gloucester, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts
References
- ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "NOAA’s Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary shipwreck Lamartine listed on National Register of Historic Places". NOAA. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
- ↑ "Lamartine". Stellwagen National Marine Sanctuary. Retrieved 2013-12-24.
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