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Christian Island, Georgian Bay
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Shipwreck |
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1890 |
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Christian Island, Georgian Bay, Canada |
| Depth: |
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30 feet |
| Built: |
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1890 |
| Sunk: |
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1924 |
| Length: |
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349 feet |
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boat |
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Beginner |
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Upright |
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| Description |
Starting life as the Manola, her bow half sunk in Lake Ontario. A new bow half was built for the stern, and renamed the Mapledawn.
On Nov. 30. 1924 a winter storm gale stranded the Mapledawn, which was bound for Port McNichol with a cargo of barley on Christian Island. Two weeks of salvage recovered 75,000 bushels of barley, but the ship was declared a total loss. Some machinery was removed then but more of this wreck was raised for metal salvage to aid the World War II effort in 1942.
From time to time, a line is strung along the bottom to the propeller section, located apart from the wreck in slightly deeper water, the evidence of how a commercial transport became one of the top Ontario dive sites. If the line isn''t present, swim at about a 45 degree angle to the left, as the line of the wreck is behind you. Go over a hill of gravel and vis permitting (which it usually does), you should see the propeller section in about 35 feet |
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