Port Dalhousie – Diver Trek

Ontario’s (not so) Hidden Gem- the “Tiller Wreck”.

June 18, 2014
Great Lakes Shipwrecks / Lake Ontario

June 15, 2014

Tiller wreck, Port Dalhousie, Ontario — The “Tiller wreck”. Note the broken bow sprit- a testament to the storm that brought this ship down.

It must have just missed the cut in Cris Kohl’s book, “The 100 BEST Great Lakes Shipwrecks”. It has all the elements that make a great shipwreck: it’s largely intact, significant, beautiful, and reaches back to a very different time period (nearly 200 yrs).

The “Tiller Wreck” is a 94′ two-masted schooner that lies in 116′ of water about 4 km off Port Dalhousie, in Lake Ontario. It gets its name from the tiller which steers it, as opposed to a wheel, which was introduced around 1850.

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