Great Egg Inlet

Absecon Inlet
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Brigantine
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Wreck of the
Robert J. Walker
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Robert J. Walker facts
132-foot sidewheel steamer
Built 1844
Served in the U.S. Coast
Survey (Now part of NOAA)
Sunk June 21, 1860
(collided with the commercial
schooner Fanny)
72 crew members and the
wife of an executive ofcer
on board, 20 died
Lays in 85 feet of water,
10 miles off the coast from
Absecon Lighthouse
Fishermen and divers found
the wreck in 1970 but it was
not ofcially identied until
June 21, 2013 by a NOAA
survey ship the Thomas
Jefferson doing a superstorm
Sandy coastal survey
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