ATLANTIC DIVERS: New Jersey Online Museum

Shipwreck Museum Exhibits
The purpose of this page is to educate and advise on the rescue and preservation of artifacts and to share these recoveries with fellow wreck divers, historians and collectors. These recoveries reflect years of research, preservation and hundreds of dives. Enjoy these exciting and beautiful preservations of history.

Currently, We have displays of recoveries at three museums in South Jersey which depict and promote wreck diving history.

BAYSHORE MUSEUM, BIVALVE, N.J. (Opened July 2020)

CAPE MAY COUNTY MUSEUM, CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. (Third season)

NEW JERSEY MARITIME MUSEUM, BEACH HAVEN, N.J. (Continuous)

Each is unique and offers reflection on the Atlantic coasts fantastic wreck diving culture.

Currently on display in the Museum Of Cape May County, N.J.

Currently on display at the Bayshore Center. https://www.bayshorecenter.org/

Please support these museums during the Corona Virus pandemic.

Click Here : Check out the SNJ news story on this display.

SHIPWRECKS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC

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Previously on display in Atlantic City Aquarium 1995
Bridge Telegraph from Varanger
Helm from Silas Papoose

Taking apart and restoring telegraph

25 feet of brass chain

helm being restored

1979 Philadelphia Bulletin

Maritime Museum of New Jersey Maritime Museum Information

New Jersey Maritime Museum Exhibit of United Fruit Ships lost off Atlantic City.

Display of New Jersey Maritime Museum Exhibit 2012
The S.S.Almirante, S.S. San Jose and the S.S. Miraflores

Currently on display at New Jersey Maritime Museum Exhibit in L.B.I. New Jersey
Top row are deck prisms. Row two is locks, clay pipes and spikes.
Bottom row are deadeyes, rigging and blocks recovered from New Jersey shipwrecks.

Past Museum displays include Trenton State Museum, Ocean City Museum, Atlantic City Aquarium, Tuckerton Museum and Philadelphia Franklin Institute,

Atlantic Diver's first museum display Trenton State Museum 1979

Vizcaya

What Lies Beneath Story

Identification of Shipwreck Artifacts

This is a shipwreck identification pictorial and description of unique shipwreck discoveries. Many times an unusual artifact is recovered with no determination of it's purpose or use. This section may help. Some typical finds have been left out such as portholes, dead eyes, bottles etc... and other sections will be devoted to their identification and type.

If you have something unusual to share please email Atlantic Divers with a picture.

Compasses, stands and binnacles

brass work light with wooden handle

compensation ball and bracket for compass

brass binnacle from Varanger

compass in box

small compass with dome glass

boxed compass

gyro compass repeater stand

compass in mahogany binnacle stand

with cover and lantern complete

deviation box with magnets

compass azimuth

Small oddities

lead sealed pickle lid - cargo

condenser relief

cherub taft rail log indicator- navigation instrument

copper spikes and nails with copper sheathing- ship hardware

Homestead sewing machine threader- cargo

faucet- fuel tape measure- silver serving spoon in clump of coal

perfume lid- San Saba

carbon rods, jelly jars, coffee mug, shot gun shells, 22 bullets- San Saba

spoons San Saba

bone toothbrush

pipe with brass cover

doll heads

Black Bertha doll head - cargo

chronometer

grinding wheels

brass double pulley

brass hand made bilge or draft marks

thermometer for boiler relief

manual bilge pump

wooden binnacle base

fuel tape measure

fuel instruction plaque (vice versa) and directions explaining how to discharge oil overboard.
This helps with dating the wreck as this is no longer legal.