Conestoga (ship)
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The Conestoga was an Iron-clad wooden steam freighter, 252 ft by 36 ft with a 16 ft hold, constructed in Cleveland by Quale & Son, and launched July 6th, 1878.
On May 21, 1922, while awaiting passage through the Galup Canal locks, a fire mysteriously started in her engine room. 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 30,000 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.
[edit] External links
- The Conestoga article (with pictures) on WikiScuba
- Conestoga diving information from Geodiving
- Conestoga dive guide from Save Ontario Shipwrecks
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