03/07/2026
"Point Pelee Shipwrecks"
KHSA Meeting Monday March 9, 2026
First Baptist Church, Kingsville at 2 PM.
Everyone Welcome!
Lake Erie's most treacherous hazard to navigation is Point Pelee, where hundreds of ships have been damaged and lost. Learn about the early, tragic wrecks of the paddle wheelers, Kent and Northern Indiana; the excellently preserved schooner named the Willis, sunk in an 1872 collision; the ship named the Little Wissahickon, wrecked in 1896 with three lives lost; daring rescues and heart-breaking failures, such as the steamers George Stone, the Clarion, and the N. J. Nessen; details of the Conemaugh, the closest shipwreck to the actual point of land; the controversial 1980s anchor theft from the 1905 wreck of the schooner-barge.
