Conestoga (ship)

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The Conestoga was an Iron clad wooden steam freighter 252 ft X 36ft with a 16ft hold constructed in Cleveland and launched July 6th, 1878.

On May 21, 1922 while awaiting passage through the Galup Canal locks, she mysteriously caught fire. When this happened it was flushed from the lock where it drifted downstream and burned to its waterline and sank. There was no loss of life and its cargo of 40,000 bushels of wheat was salvaged.

The Conestoga is now a popular wreck dive where it sank in the Saint Lawrence River south of Cardinal, Ontario. It rests at a depth of 22-25ft and is about 75ft from shore.