KEY STATS:
Ship Type: Trawler
Lifespan: Built 1967, Scuttled 1993
Length: 40ft
Depths: 55 ft
Location: Nine Mile Point, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
GPS N44.09.78 W76.34.07

Around the year of Canada's 100th birthday, a 40 ft wooden trawler hull was started in Shelborne, Nova Scotia, by Ken and Lois Jenkins of Port Credit, Ontario. They brought the partially-built hull to Port Credit and completed it in their back yard. Launched in 1968, it was christened the Effie Mae. Around 1980, the Effie Mae became the first live-aboard dive charter boat in the Kingston area before changing hands in 1987 to Ted and Donna Walker. Sadly, Ken succumbed to cancer the following year. They started chartering out of Kingston up to the 1992 season when Ted was transferred out west. Finding no suitable buyers and not wanting their beloved Effie broken up or just left to rot, they donated the hull to Preserve Our Wrecks Kingston for sinking. 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 had visited so many times before. To-day, sitting upright beside the wreck of the schooner barge "Aloha," she is an often-visited dive site. Some boat operators even use this a double tank charter tying off on then leaving for the other mooring. I fortunately do not use these operators

Local divers affectionately refer to the wreck of the "Effie" as "Ken's wreck," as it was Ken Mullings who did most of the work to sink the Effie for all to enjoy even when she landed in the wrong spot.