Kingston Wreck Diving- the City of Sheboygan wreck and the Wolfe Island Graveyard.

city-of-sheboygan
The 135′ wooden schooner “City of Sheboygan”, when it was owned in Chicago from 1894-1897. The name plate was removed by its discoverer, and is now on display at the Kingston Marine Museum. Source: Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, BGSU.

October, 2016.

When the weather is calm it’s time to take advantage of some of the more exposed, and seldom dived wrecks.  One such wreck is the three masted schooner “The City of Sheboygan”,  which lies deep in a very exposed area south of Amherst Island.  It’s well preserved, mostly intact and regarded as one of Kingston’s “A” wrecks.  The other wrecks on this dive- the “Wire Schooner” and “Bismarck”- are unidentified, rarely visited, and have their final resting place in an area that is known as the “Wolfe Island Graveyard”.

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