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| Location: |
9 mile point
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Official Name: |
Aloha & Effie Mae |
| GPS: |
N44.09.78 W76.34.07 |
Material: |
Steel/Wood |
| Access: |
Boat |
Propulsion: |
- |
| Level: |
Intermediate |
Type: |
Schooner/Barge |
| Depth: |
55'/ |
Built: |
Michigan 1888/ N. Scotia |
| Bottom: |
Sand |
Sunked: |
Oct 28 1917 / October 17 1993 |
| Current: |
Low |
Cargo: |
- |
| Hazards: |
- |
Dimensions: |
171'x32'x12 /40' |
| Traffic: |
Low |
Position: |
- |
Aloha
The two-masted schooner-barge
Aloha was built by William Dulac at Mt. Clemens, Michigan in 1888, and enrolled 173ft x 32.5ft x 12ft, 521 gross tons, 500
net tons. The Aloha was under American enrolment until 1913, and assumed Canadian registration in 1913, 171.2ft x 32ft x 12ft,
512 gross tons, 517 net tons. Under tow of the steamer C.W. Chamberlain of Toronto, the Aloha was hauling 925 tons of coal
from Erie, Pennsylvania to the Kingston Locomotive Works when she foundered in the early morning of October 28, 1917 abreast
of Nine Mile Point, Simcoe Island.
Effie Mae
Around the year of Canada's 100th birthday a 40ft
wooden trawler hull was started in Shelborne Nova Scotia.. The craft was being built for Ken and Lois Jenkins of Port Credit
Ontario. The hull was brought to Port Credit and completed in their back yard. In 1968 it was launched.. The completed boat
was christened The Effie Mae.. Around 1980 the Effie became the first liveaboard dive charter boat in the Kingston area..
In 1987 Ken sold the Effie to Ted and Donna Walker..Ken succumbed to cancer and died the following year.. Ted and Donna started
in 1987 to run charters out of Kingston and continued to the end of the 1992 season.. Ted was transferred out west.. So the
Walker family decided to sell their beloved Effie.. Finding no suitable buyers and not wanting their beloved Effie broken
up or just left to rot.. They decided to donate the hull for sinking to Preserve Our Wrecks Kingston. In the spring of 1993
they ran her for the last time to the Metal Craft Dry dock to be made ready for sinking. On Sunday October 17 1993 twenty
five years from the date of her christening the Effie Mae was put to rest beside one of the historic shipwrecks she visited
so many times before. Today she is a valuable and much visited dive site sitting upright beside the wreck of the Schooner
barge Aloha.. A silent tribute to the two families who sailed and cared for her during her life above the waves...
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