The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from destruction, but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a period of 87 years, she eluded many efforts to locate her remains, but was finally discovered in 2000 by a sailor using a fish-finding device. Since then, she has been visited by thousands, but sadly plundered. Our story traces her history from her British origins in 1883, through the transition to become a "Laker, " the eventful storm, the search, and her ultimate discovery in southern Lake Huron, and the controversy over how she should be protected.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Colour Plates
- Maps and Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- “Wexford Found Off Grand Bend” by Tim Cumming
- Chapter 1: Historical Perspectives: Great Britain to the Great Lakes
- Chapter 2: The Skipper’s Log
- Chapter 3: The Final Voyage
- Chapter 4: The Crew List, November 1913
- Chapter 5: A Memorial: November 16, 1913
- Chapter 6: Weather Forecasting in 1913: Descriptions of the Storm
- Chapter 7: The Carnage of the Storm
- Chapter 8: The Aftermath: Consequences Abound
- Chapter 9: The Goderich Inquest
- Chapter 10: Searching for the Wexford
- Chapter 11: The Wreck Today
- Chapter 12: The Plunder of the Wexford
- Epilogue Remembering the Wexford, November 11, 2000
- Appendix A: “Discovery of the Wexford” by David Bannister
- Appendix B: A Letter to the Minister of Culture, Province of Ontario
- Appendix C: Legislation Affecting Marine Archaeological Sites
- Appendix D: Shipwrecks Along the Huron Shoreline
- Appendix E: The Plimsoll Marks and Well-Deck Ships
- Appendix F: Poetical Tributes to Mariners
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Artists
- About the Author
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