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ANCIENT MARINER Broward
County
 The Ancient Mariner was an ex-Coast Guard vessel called Nemises,
named after the Greek goddess of vengeance. The Nemises was built as
a Prohibition Runner by Marritte Mfg. Company in Pt. Pleasant, West
Virginia. Her keel was laid on November 17, 1933; she was launched
on July 7, 1934, and was commissioned on October 10. The Nemises was
165 feet long, had a 25 foot beam and displaced 370 tons. She was a
class "B" cutter and was powered to a top speed of 12.9 knots by two
1,340 hp diesel engines and two three blade propellers. Her crew
consisted of four officers, one warrant and 50 men.
The Nemises never had the chance to chase rum runners as prohibition
ended in 1933, a year before she was launched. During World War II
the Nemises was used as a sub-chaser and escort for convoys. Some
sources state that she dropped depth charges on a submarine in
August of 1942. She also rescued survivors from the torpedoed
tankers Faja De Oro and SS Suwied in 1942. She was decommissioned on
November 20, 1964, and sold to Auto Marine Engineers on February 9,
1966. In 1979 investors purchased the vessel and re-modeled her to
look like a three deck African steamer. She was renamed Livingstone
Landing and became Ft. Lauderdale's first floating restaurant. The
Livingstone Landing closed in 1981. On April 28, 1981, the vessel
now named Ancient Mariner sunk at its dock. She was re-floated and
re-opened as a restaurant. In 1986 more than 100 patrons contracted
hepatitis after dining aboard the old cutter. The restaurant could
not survive the bad publicity and went bankrupt. The vessel
re-opened under several names including Chapmans River Raw Bar,
Anchorage Seafood, Dockside 501 and Cutters, but none lasted too
long. She was purchased by the South Florida Divers Club of
Hollywood for $6,000.00, and donated to Broward County's artificial
reef program.
In June of 1991, the Nemises, now called Ancient Mariner, was sunk
as an artificial reef off Deerfield Beach. She now sits upright in
70 feet of water with a slight port list.
Photo: The Ancient
Mariner was sunk as an artificial reef in June of 1991. Photo
courtesy Steve
Somerville.
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