Half Moon (shipwreck)
{{Short description|1930 sailboat wreck in Florida, US}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:1908 SY Germania.jpg | Ship caption=Germania, 1908 }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= | Ship flag= | Ship name=* Germania (1908–1917)
| Ship namesake=Halve Maen | Ship owner=* Count Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1908–1917)
| Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany | Ship original cost=704,024 marks | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=1908 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate=Sank, 1930 | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship type=Schooner | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement= {{Convert|250|t|LT|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} | Ship length=*{{Convert|47.21|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a
| Ship beam= {{Convert|8.17|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draft= {{Convert|5.41|m|ftin|abbr=on}} max. | Ship depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship sail plan=*2-masted
| Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship boats= | Ship crew=40 | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes | designated_other1_name = Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve | designated_other1_number = 7 | designated_other1_abbr = FUAP | designated_other1_link = Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves | designated_other1_date = 2000 | name = Half Moon (shipwreck) | image = | caption = | coordinates = {{coord|25|43|39|N|80|8|4|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Miami, Florida#USA Florida#USA | location = Miami-Dade County, Florida, US | nearest_city = Miami, Florida | area = | added = May 31, 2001 | refnum = 01000531{{NRISref|version=2010a}} | visitation_num = | visitation_year = }} |
The Half Moon (also known as the Germania and Exen) was a racing sailboat; it sank in 1930 near Miami, Florida, United States. The wreck is outside Bear Cut, which separates Virginia Key from Key Biscayne. Christened Germania, the racing yacht featured a chrome-nickel steel hull built by Krupp-Germania-Werft in 1908 in Kiel, Germany. During a visit to England in 1914, the yacht was seized as a 'war prize'. After changing owners several times, and surviving an especially-violent storm off Virginia, the yacht became a floating restaurant and dance hall off Miami. It sank near Key Biscayne in 1930.
In 2000, the wreck became the seventh Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve.
In 2001, it was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.
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- [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/FL/Dade/state2.html Miami-Dade County listings] at [http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com National Register of Historic Places]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060915133050/http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/underwater/preserves/halfmoon.cfm Half Moon] at [http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/underwater/preserves/index.cfm Florida's Underwater Archaeological Preserves]
- [http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/underwater/maritime/shipwrecks/shipwreck.cfm?name=Half_Moon Half Moon] at [http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/underwater/maritime/index.cfm Florida Maritime Heritage Trail]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310221500/http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/fht/record_t.cfm?ID=233&type=t&index=14 Half Moon] at [https://web.archive.org/web/20060821113737/http://www.flheritage.com/services/sites/fht/ Florida Heritage Tourism Interactive Catalog]
- [http://www.museumsinthesea.com/halfmoon/index.htm Museums in the Sea Half Moon]
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Category:Maritime incidents in 1930
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Miami-Dade County, Florida
Category:Shipwrecks of the Florida coast
Category:Shipwrecks on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida
Category:Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserves
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