Steam Barge Arizona

Found by a Rocket

Location: South Side of Wolfe Island
GPS: 44° 7.37N, 76° 23.018W




The wreck is located in Canadian Waters southwest of the Horne Ferry Landing on
the south shore of Wolfe Island, Ontario near the red buoy R244. Wreckage of the
Arizona is spread over an area about 200 by 30 feet. The wreck was dynamited
shortly after it was moved to its present location from the break wall at Cape Vincent
where she originally sunk.

Read the interesting story of how this wreck was discovered by divers in the early 1960's in
Thousand Islands life.com  September issue story "Found by a Rocket"

 Friday August 24^th

Schooner Maggie L.

The Clayton Dive Club deployed a buoy to help protect the wreck of the Schooner Maggie L. located off Clayton in French Creek Bay. Shipwrecks are an important underwater historic resources. Providing a buoy will reduce the risk of anchor damage caused by divers anchoring on the wreck and the buoy will also improve access to this popular dive site. Buoys provide safer ascents and descents for the divers. Buoying wrecks in Canadian waters is supported by several dive organizations and the Ontario Government.

1000 Islands Ready Mix Concrete donated the concrete mooring block for the buoy and R J Marine Associates LTD. placed the block on site. The Clayton Diving Club will maintain the buoy and have filled all the necessary regulatory permits before the buoy was deployed. A lighted buoy will replace the temporary holding buoys.

The Maggie L. was a 90 foot 2-masted wooden schooner that sunk after a collision with a steel freighter on November 4th, 1927 as she was leaving the main shipping lane towards Clayton. The Maggie L. was one of the last commercial ships to sail on Lake Ontario and the Upper St.

(Photo's by Carol Kozin)

 

Mooring block donated
by
1000 Islands Ready Mix Concrete



R J Marine Associates LTD's
Landing craft with morring block.

Morring block being deployed.

Block on Site.

Temporary holding buoy.

 

Cape Vincent Dive Club

The Cape Vincent Dive Club will provide Scuba demonstrations during Cape Vincent's "A day on the River" activities, Saturday August 25th.  

Some of the following activities:
1)  Brief presentation regarding the clubs efforts in the community to promote diving locally.  
2)  Explanations of the various equipment used in recreational diving.
3)  Demonstrations of gearing up, using the buddy system.
4)  Demonstrations of a deep water entry from the end of the dock.
Two demonstration times, one at 11:00 AM and again at 1:00 PM



CVDC diving the Wolfe Island II

Night Dive with the CVDC



45 years ago!

The Clayton Diving Club Inc. was formed in 1967 and incorporated in 1968. It went on to buy land, had several dive boats and for over 30 years operated as an active Dive Club. In the late 1990's its numbers decreased and eventfully it divested itself of its assets and functionally stopped operating.
 
This video provides a glimpse into the exciting and interesting first years of sport scuba diving in the Thousand Islands. In 2010 a new Clayton Diving Club formed to carry on the rich tradition of scuba diving in Clayton, NY. http://claytondivingclub.net/

Video by: www.tiasd.com
Pictures: Skip Couch, Dennis & Kathi McCarthy
Song: "Ghost Fleet" by Tom Booth, Watertown NY (2010)

Schooner A. E. Vickery

August 17, 1889, the three-masted wooden schoonerA. E. Vickery struck the shoal above Rock Island Lighthouse while entering the AmericanNarrows with cargo of 21,000 bushels of corn destined for Wiser’s Distillery at Prescott, Ontario. She was launched July 1861 at Three Mile Bay, N.Y. as the J.B. Penfield and renamed the A. E. Vickery on February 25th, 1884. She was about 130 feet long by 26 feet wide and had a depth of hold of 11 feet

Side scan of the A.E. Vickery

Vickery's bow and hawse pipe

Vickery's windless and tow bit

Vickery's main deck

Vickery port hull