Body of Water: Lake Ontario
Site Quality:
Vessel Type: 2-Mast Schooner
Built: 1877 by William Jameson at Mill Point, Ontario, CA
Length x Beam x Depth ft [m]: 95' x 24.5'x 9.5' [29.0] x [7.47] x [2.90]
Tonnage: 122 Gross
Official Number: 75911
Other Names: None
Loss Details:
Foundered off Timber Island; no lives lost. Vessel was bound with coal from Oswego, NY, for Napanee, Ont. at time of loss.
Date of Loss: Tuesday, November 28, 1922
Location of Loss: Timber Island, ON CAD
Site Details:
The ECCLES sits upright and intact on a hard bottom.
Highlights: Anchor off starboard side, windlass, dead eyes, intact cabin, pottery, glassware, jars of preseves, wheel, rudder.
Dive Depth ft [m]: 90'-100' [51.8-56.4]
Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, BGSU
Great Lakes Maritime Collection; Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
News Transcripts - Maritime History of the Great Lakes Website.
shipwreckworld.com Website.