41°48'54.7"N 71°23'24.7"W
Common Seagull
Squawk! The shipwreck provides a foraging, nesting, and resting habitat for a variety of bird species.
Common Seagull
Squawk! The shipwreck provides a foraging, nesting, and resting habitat for a variety of bird species.
Great Blue Heron
A large wading bird common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America. The shipwreck provides a foraging, nesting, and resting habitat for a variety of bird species.
Common Seagull
Squawk! The shipwreck provides a foraging, nesting, and resting habitat for a variety of bird species.
Sailing Vessel 12 – Schooner-Barge
The remains of a large schooner-barge representing the last chapter in the history of America’s merchant sailing vessel developmental chronology. Schooner-barges were employed in the bulk-cargo carrying trade and most often carried stone, grain, lumber and coal.
Ship Worm
A group of saltwater clams with long, soft, naked bodies. They are common in most oceans and seas and notorious for boring into (and eventually destroying) wood that is immersed in sea water.
Oyster
Salt-water molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats and intertidal areas. Oysters are noteworthy, as their presence indicates that relatively healthy and non-turbid water conditions prevail.
Common Periwinkle
A species of small sea snails with gills and dark shells. They are often invasive in intertidal areas and were introduced from Europe around 1840.
Eel Grass
A submerged aquatic plant that provides a nursery habitat for fish and shellfish. Green Jacket Shoal’s name derives from its green color caused by an abundance of eel grass that once grew upon it.
Blue Mussel
Blue mussels are abundant intertidally. They have a central ecological importance in these regions by increasing seabed roughness and providing habitat substrate supporting biodiversity.
White Oak (Quercus alba) and Southern Yellow Pine (Pinus palustris)
Wood species commonly used in the construction of the ships that were abandoned in the Green Jacket Shoal graveyard.
Harbor Seal
Harbor seals usually arrive in Narragansett Bay in late September or early October, increase in numbers through March, and leave the Bay by early May. They use the shipwreck as haul-out sites for resting and can be seen sunning themselves on the boat remains.
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