Overview
Also called the workboat, a 125' steel-hulled Coast Guard cutter sitting upright and intact. Debris and lift bags from a failed re-float attempt are scattered around the wreck.
What to See
Intact upright wreck, interior and exterior lift bags, deep-water marine growth.
Typical Conditions
Technical dive (Advanced Nitrox/Deco or equivalent). Cold, variable visibility, possible current.
History
Originally built as the Montgomery, then commissioned as USCG Cutter Colfax (WSC-133) - a Coast Guard patrol boat built by American Brown Boveri Electric Corp, Camden, NJ, launched March 22, 1927. She was 125' long with a 23'6" beam (correcting our old "110'" note), originally powered by two 6-cylinder engines later retrofitted, with a crew of 3 officers and 17 men (research credit: Tyler Stalter, via wreckedinmyrevo.com). The re-float/tow-to-Wreck-Alley/capsize story is widely repeated but is explicitly flagged by that same research community as "popular knowledge" they could not confirm in any newspaper or public record - treat the sinking circumstances as unverified, not settled fact.