This Small schooner was built by William Jamieson in Deseronto in 1877. One of the last schooners to ply Lake Ontario. Bound Oswego for Napanee wtih a load of coal in Nov 1922 for the Schuster Coal Company. She met with heavy weather. Captain Harry Mitchell, with the assistance of the cook, Mrs Mary Lloyd, and a boy named Hugh Hanna, navigated her safety to Timber Island that night. Anchors were cast but could not hold, and the rudder post was broken. After he and crew went ashore, her anchor chain broke and she drifted out and sank between Timber I and Nine Mile Point.
The Last people to see the Kattie Eccles was actually the crew of the Lyman Davis which had grounded on Waupoos Island during the same storm.
Kingstonunderwater is the personal property of Tom Rutledge and all pictures are by Tom Rutledge, occasionally Photos from Dan Mackay, James Pate, Anne Campbell, Barry Mutch, Kevin Ripley and Sean Felts may get posted as they would more then likely use my camera on a dive with me or have access to their own equipment in most of those cases I would be the subject as well.
Kingston Underwater supports the Great Lakes Underwater Explorer Club (GLUE) out of Northern Tech Diver - Divers that practice and preach wreck conservation like Save Ontario Shipwrecks.
