KEY STATS:
Ship Type: Schooner Barge
Lifespan: Built 1888, Sunk 1917
Length: 173 ft (53.3m)
Depths: 55 ft (17m)
Location: Off Nine-Mile Point, Simcoe Island, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
GPS N 44'09.785 W 76'34.092
The Aloha was built by William Dulac at Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
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, U.S. official number 106542. 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, Canadian official number 134264 (Figure 4). 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.
In 1964 the Aloha was discovered by local divers Barbara Carson, Nathaniel Sudds and Lloyd Shales in August 1963, the hull is mostly intact, and this site is used as a second dive or training dive.
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