| Joffre (shipwreck) | |
| Sigdate1 Label: | Sank |
| Sigdate1: | 1947 |
| Added: | January 16, 2009 |
| Refnum: | 08000887 |
The Joffre is a 20th-century shipwreck lying in the waters of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off Gloucester, Massachusetts. She was a schooner built in 1912 in Essex, Massachusetts. Active in the Gloucester fishery, she first used tub trawls for fishing, and was converted to an eastern rig dragger (a type of trawler) and motorized in 1939. She was returning to Gloucester when her engine caught fire on the evening of August 9, 1947. The wheelhouse was engulfed, the crew abandoned ship, and she sank the next day.[1] The wreck was documented by a Stellwagen Bank survey team in 2006.
The wreck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[2]