Garden Island Graveyard

Here’s a full Shotline-style article you can drop into a new page called something like:

Garden Island Barge Graveyard (Back Bay, Kingston)

I’ve kept it in your usual wreck/logbook voice, assuming this is a multi-wreck site rather than a single hull.

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• Type: Ship graveyard – cluster of abandoned wooden barges, schooner-barges, tugs & steam barges
• Lengths: Typical hulls ~30–65 m (100–215 ft) – e.g. tug PARTHIA c. 33 m / 108 ft; steam barge INDIA c. 66 m / 216 ft
• Deaths: No known loss-of-life disasters at the graveyard itself (individual hulls may have earlier casualty histories elsewhere)
• Location: Back Bay on the north side of Garden Island, St. Lawrence River, ~3 km SE of Kingston, Ontario, between the mainland and Wolfe Island
• GPS: Multiple wreck positions – cluster of hulls used as piers and breakwaters in the sheltered back bay. Use updated charts / Shotline map layer for individual coordinates.
• Depth: Very shallow – mostly ~1–5 m (3–16 ft), with some pockets slightly deeper; many timbers and frames are at or just below normal water level and visible from the surface.
• Difficulty: Novice–intermediate. Easy water conditions but navigation, entanglement and boat-traffic hazards demand disciplined procedures. Ideal for kayak / SUP / snorkel; scuba possible as low-profile, shallow dives.
• Access: Boat / paddle craft only – sheltered bay; often visited on guided “Get Wrecked”–style tours with Marine Museum interpreters.