Archive Record

Metadata

Item ID#

A2021.024.248

Title

Manitoulin Island shipwrecks

Object Name

File, Document

Dates of Creation

[19--?]

Creator

Hammond, Dick

Description

This document was created to inform divers of the shipwrecks located in the North Channel near Manitoulin Island. The information included is the approximate location, depth, and condition of the wrecks, brief history of the vessel, and cause of sinking (if known).

Identified shipwrecks listed in this work are the following:
- ALEXANDRA (passenger freighter)
- CHOWN (wooden schooner)
- CITY OF OWEN SOUND (wooden passenger ship)
- CLARENCE E. (fish tug)
- GEORGE R. GRAHAM (bulk grain freighter)
- HIAWATHA (car and passenger ferry)
- INDIA (steam barge)
- IROQUOIS (passenger and mail freighter)
- JACQUELINE (wooden ferry)
- MANITOULIN (wooden passenger steamer)
- MICHIPICOTEN (passenger and freight carrier)
- NORTHERN BELL (wooden passenger and freight steamer)
- NORTH WIND (steel hulled freighter)
- TURRET CROWN (steel bulk freighter)
- WANIPITEE (wooden hulled tug)
- WINONA (wooden passenger and mail steamer)
- WINSLOW (tug)
- Unnamed (logging tug)
- Unnamed (tow tug and barge)
- Unnamed (schooner)
- Unnamed (UC-43B aircraft)
- ATTWATER (wooden hulled ship)
- BRUNO (?)
- BURLINGTON (wooden freighter)
- BUTCHER’S BOY (?)
- CANADIAN
- CITY OF LONDON
- DUNCAN CITY
- EDNA IVAN (steam tug)
- EDWARD BUCKLYE (wooden freighter)
- ELIZABETH BRODER
- ELSIE FLO (?)
- GARRY G. (?)
- GERMAN (tug)
- HERCULES (schooner)
- J.N. CARTER (schooner)
- LAURA H. LEE (wooden steamer)
- MARY MCVIE (?)
- F.N. CAMPBELL (tug)
- PREMIER (wooden passenger steamer)
- SARONIC (?)
- SEA HORSE (schooner)
- SIMCOE (wooden steamer)
- THOMAS H. Cahoon (?)
- EA VELLER (tug)
- VICTORIA K. (fishing boat)
- E. GEORGE (lumber tug)
- WESTERN STAR (?)

Collection

Arthur Amos shipwreck research collection

Marine Heritage Centre

Ontario Marine History and Underwater Archaeology Research Centre

System of arrangement

This item is part of the Arthur Amos Shipwreck Collection, Series 6 (Arthur Amos research folders).

Parent Object

AASRC S6

Level of Description

Item

Physical Description

13 pages : 28 x 21.5 cm

Restrictions on Use

Responsibility for determining the copyright status and permissible use rests with the user.

Places

Manitoulin Island

Search Terms & Subjects

Marine
Ships
Shipwrecks