Lillie Parsons
Schooner · Lost 1877 · Lake Ontario & the St. Lawrence
The coal schooner Lillie Parsons sank off Brockville, Ontario, after her cargo shifted in a squall on August 5, 1877.
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The Vessel and Her Loss
Launched at Tonawanda, New York, on September 14, 1868, the two-masted schooner Lillie Parsons was carrying coal down the St. Lawrence on August 5, 1877, when a squall shifted her cargo off Brockville, Ontario. She struck a rock, flooded and sank. Local divers found her on August 6, 1963, still holding some 500 tons of coal, in about 65 feet of water off Sparrow Island.
Vessel
- 1868
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- Tonawanda, New York
- Wood
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- Sail
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Loss
- August 5, 1877
- Storm
- Off Sparrow Island, St. Lawrence River
- St. Lawrence River
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- About 500 tons of coal
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- The article does not report casualties.
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The Wreck Today
- 65 ft
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Position
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- Brockville, Ontario
No pin: no surveyed wreck position in the sources used.
Evidence
Overall confidence: Sparsely documented (50/100)
Based on a published secondary account; original records were not independently inspected.
Article narrative of construction, voyage and loss (secondary summary of cited books and newspapers).
Dive Brockville — Lillie Parsons
Built 1868 at Tonawanda; sank 5 August 1877 off Sparrow Island with coal after a squall shifted her cargo.
