The 350-foot long battleship USS
Massachusetts, resting beneath the waters of Pensacola Pass, became the fourth Underwater Preserve in June 1993.
City of Hawkinsville, located in Old Town, was a Suwannee River steamboat sunk in the 1920s. In 1992 this underwater park became the third Preserve in the state of Florida.
Terry Helmers, a Miami diver, nominated
Half Moon to become Florida’s seventh Preserve. Located on a shallow, sandy shoal just off Key Biscayne lies the German sailing yacht with an exciting past.
Florida’s fifth Preserve, the steamer SS Copenhagen, crashed into a reef on the Pompano Ledge in 1900. This addition to the Preserve system was dedicated in June 1994.
Before wrecking off Manalapan in 1898, the eighth Preserve
Lofthus traveled the world as a merchant ship, attempting to avoid pirates with her painted-on gunports.
