Green Jacket Shoal is a 33-acre (13 ha) shoal and ship graveyard in Providence River, between the cities of East Providence and Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It contains a large amount of debris from a century of abandoned and wrecked ships, destroyed docks, pilings, and other remnants of the area's industrial past. India Point, on the Providence side, was the city's first port, which remained active from 1680 until the Great Depression in the early 20th century. Bold Point, on the East Providence side, was home to a dry dock and other maritime businesses.
Green Jacket Shoal in 2017, viewed from India Point Park, facing Bold Point Park and the Providence River.
Providence Dry Dock and Marine Company at Bold Point circa 1910
Green Jacket Shoal in 2017, viewed from Bold Point Park in East Providence
Image: Mount Hope (steamboat)
A ship graveyard or ship cemetery is a location where the hulls of scrapped ships are left to decay and disintegrate, or left in reserve. Such a practice is now less common due to waste regulations and so some dry docks where ships are broken are also known as ship graveyards.
Large ships are scrapped in Alang, India
Aerial view of Alang
Staten Island boat graveyard in 1973
Shipwrecks in Camaret-sur-Mer