George A. Marsh
The George A. Marsh was a three-masted schooner built in Michigan City Indiana in 1882 as a lumber carrier. In 1914, the Marsh was sold to a Belleville, Ontario man as a coal carrier.
The Marsh met her demise on August 8, 1917, when she sank during a storm, with a loss of twelve of the fourteen crew.
Many wrecks explored by Save Ontario Shipwrecks are not fully intact, unlike the George A. Marsh a three masted schooner, which sank on August 8, 1917, during a summer gale off Amherst Island near Kingston, Ontario The wreck of the Marsh rests upright and very intact in Lake Ontario, in roughly 80 feet of water.
