&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:WreckOfTheMetamora-August27_2010.jpg) The above-water remains of the wreck of the tug Metamora. Visible is the ship′s boiler, which has been painted white and has a channel marker attached to it as a hazard warning.
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | Metamora |
| Builder | Peck & Masters, Cleveland |
| Completed | 1864 |
| Fate | Ran into a shallow shoal off of Turning Island, Georgian Bay, September 29, 1907[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Tug |
| Tonnage | 300 tons |
| Length | 121 feet |
| Beam | 21 feet |
| Installed power | Steam |
The Metamora was a wooden tug commissioned in 1864 and used predominantly for ferrying passengers and goods in the Georgian Bay area of Ontario. It ran onto a shallow shoal near Turning Island in Georgian Bay on July 30, 1907, caught fire and sank in six feet of water.[2]
She was constructed at the Peck & Masters shipyard in Cleveland, Ohio in 1864.[1] The ship was 121 feet long, and 21 feet wide, and displaced about 300 tons.[1] The Metamora was originally fitted out with armour-plating and a cannon, and was tasked with patrolling the waters of what was then Upper Canada for Fenian raiders.[2] These were removed in the 1870s, when the Fenian threat had diminished, and the Metamora then plied the waters of Georgian Bay as a freighter and passenger vessel.[2] It was being used primarily as a logging tug boat, by the Burton Bros. of Collingwood in 1895, Midland lumbermen James Playfair & Company purchased the Metamora along with three barges and a large quantity of boom logs, for use in connection with their lumbering business.[3]
- ^ a b c "Metamora". BGSU. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
- ^ a b c Curtis, Andrea (May 11, 2004). "Into the Blue". Into the Blue. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
- ^ The Canada Lumberman magazine, February 1895