Lillie Parsons
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About this site
The Lillie Parsons is a wooden two-masted schooner wreck in the St. Lawrence River at the Brockville narrows, on the upstream side of Sparrow Island in Ontario. She was built in 1868 in Tonawanda, New York, and was carrying 500 tons of coal to Brockville when a sudden squall shifted her cargo on August 5, 1877. She was pinned against the island, took on water, capsized and sank. It is one of Ontario's best-known wrecks.
The large rudder sits upstream with the square stern resting on rock ledges, and the masts run out into the channel. The drop centreboard is still in its casing midship. The depth is 40 to 80 feet (12 to 24 m) with visibility of 20 to 25 feet (6 to 8 m).
It is a boat dive rated for advanced divers. From the corner of Sparrow Island at the anchor on shore, you can follow the chain to the bow, or swim into the current down the island contour to the rudder.
Marine life here
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Round GobyNeogobius melanostomusReported here · unconfirmed
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