Bold Point
East Providence, RI 02914

Rhode Island’s largest ship graveyard!

David Robinson, a marine archaeologist at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography, has determined that 26 wrecks in total are spread across a 33-acre area of Green Jacket Shoal off East Providence. Despite their age, many of the wrecks are relatively intact. Through this study, which was funded by Rhode Island Sea Grant, Robinson has also identified, with the assistance of Providence steamboat historian William H. Ewen Jr., the remains of two iconic Rhode Island paddle-wheel steamships, the Mount Hope and the Bay Queen.

Green Jacket Shoal gets its name from the eel grass that grew on the shallow shoal.  Best viewed by boat or during low tide!

The Green Jacket Shoal ship graveyard is a unique non-renewable maritime heritage resource – a maritime cultural landscape extending between land and water that belongs to all
of us and is worthy of our stewardship and protection!!!

Green Jacket Shoal Ship Graveyard