Divers Find 1903 Shipwreck Divers find 1903 shipwreck near Block Island MYSTIC, Conn. --A group of divers says it has found thewreckage of a schooner that collided with a steamship and sank in 1903 near Block Island, R.I. Mark Munro of Griswold, Conn., said his Sound Underwater Surveygroup and the Baccala Wreck Divers began looking for the remains of theJennie R. Dubois in 2002, searching a few times a year in an area thateventually stretched to 17 square miles. The group positively identified the shipwreck in September 2007, butkept it a secret until Monday so more research could be done and othersinterested in the ship couldn't claim the find, Munro said. It was discovered about six miles southeast of Block Island in federal waters, he said. "We were pretty elated," Munro said Tuesday. "It was one of thoseprojects that you were starting to wonder if you were really going tosolve the mystery of what happened." The 2,227-ton, five-masted schooner, which was launched only 19months before the collision, was named after the wife of a Rhode IslandSupreme Court justice who owned stock in the company that built theship, Holmes Shipbuilding Co. of Mystic. Munro said the vessel, which cost $100,000 to build, was the largestever built on Connecticut's Mystic River. Jennie Dubois christened hernamesake ship with a bottle of wine on Feb. 11, 1902, in a ceremonythat attracted 6,000 people, Munro said. The Jennie R. Dubois went down on Sept. 5, 1903, after collidingwith the steamship Schoenfels in dense fog about seven miles southeastof Block Island. All 11 men aboard were rescued, Munro said. A lot of people had looked for the wreckage over the years. Munrosaid it was difficult to find because the Army Corps of Engineersblasted the wreckage with dynamite in 1903 so it wouldn't be a hazardto other ships. "They were looking for something that would look like a schooner,"Munro said. "In this case, it was not what you would typically see atthe bottom. It was spread out." Munro and his fellow divers were able to identify the shipwreck byits anchors, size and location, he said. They researched localnewspapers, examined the national archives in Washington, looked atMystic Seaport records and talked with Block Island residents. Members of Sound Underwater Survey and the Baccala Wreck Divers planto present their findings at the Mystic Yachting Center on Feb. 11, the107th anniversary of the Jennie R. Dubois' launch.