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Mentioned in the shipwreck database of the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven is the wreck site 48 miles east of Surf City, N.J. of the screw steamer Corvallis, sunk in June 1925.
At 267 feet in length, it was built in Portland, Ore. in 1919 for use by the U.S .government. While anyone who has watched old movies or documentaries on World War I or II has seen clips of the ship’s final hours, the complete story is rarely told.
The article covering an October 1925 movie premiere in Picture Play Magazine by Charles Phelps Cushing explains, “The…
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