Ocean County women write a new book about Morro Castle disaster
Beach Haven 9/18/2012 Deb Whitcraft holds up one of the life rings retreived from the wreck of the Morro Castle
On Sept. 8, 1934 the U.S. steamship Morro Castle caught fire off the New Jersey coast, killing 137. Surviving were 119 crew and only 15 passengers. The ship snapped its tow lines and drifted within a few hundred feet of the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, Monmouth County.
Gretchen Coyle, one of the authors of a new book about the wreck of the Morro Castle, shows off the hat worn by the ship’s 34-year-old cruise director, Robert James Smith. The hat is among items recovered from the Morro Castle disaster on display at the New Jersey Maritime Museum in Beach Haven.
Doug and Susan Walker live on one of the shortest streets in Somers Point. In fact, their house is one of only three homes on Warwick Avenue, a one-block street off Ocean Avenue that dead ends at the wetlands. But they also have one of the long... More »
Most of the nation’s casino markets have finally recovered from the recession, propelling revenue from slot machines and table games to near-record levels in 2012, according to a new report on the economic health of the gambling industry. More »
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