Little Georgy (1870)

Shotline Diving Wreck Profile

• Name: Little Georgy
• Type: Wooden Schooner
• Year Built: Circa 1870
• Builder: Unknown (Michigan or Ontario shipyard)
• Dimensions: Length ~117 ft (35.7 m); Beam; Depth of hold
• Registered Tonnage: ~117 tons
• Location: Lake Huron (specific point not recorded)
• Official Number: Not located in surviving registries
• Original Owners: Unknown
• Number of Masts: Undocumented

Wreck Location Map

Vessel Type

The Little Georgy appears to have been a small wooden schooner, likely employed in coastal or near-shore freight service on Lake Huron. Vessels of this size in that era typically carried coal or general cargo. Details such as mast configuration or rigging remain undocumented.

Description

No physical wreck site has been verified or documented by underwater survey teams or archives. There is no known sidescan record, location coordinates, or dive accounts. Vessel remains have not been located or cataloged in publicly available databases. Therefore, construction details beyond the schooner classification remain speculative.

History

• According to Swayze’s Great Lakes Shipwreck Files, Little Georgy “foundered in a gale” on 9 October 1912 on Lake Huron, with no detail included in the entry for cargo or shore point – only that it “foundered in a gale” on Lake Huron with “no detail.”
• No further records—such as registry logs, insurance claims, newspaper accounts, or owner information—were found in initial searches of Great Lakes Shipwreck Files or Wisconsin Shipwrecks listings.
• Given the lack of detail, it appears that the incident may have been minor or occurred far from populated shorelines, or that surviving documentation has not been digitalized or widely cataloged.

Significant Incidents

• The schooner is recorded as foundered in a storm, with total loss implied. No salvage, rescue, or wreck site recovery is on record.
• No records of human casualties exist, suggesting that crew survived or were rescued but the vessel was abandoned.

Final Disposition

• The schooner is recorded as foundered in a storm, with total loss implied. No salvage, rescue, or wreck site recovery is on record.
• No records of human casualties exist, suggesting that crew survived or were rescued but the vessel was abandoned.

Current Condition & Accessibility

• None known. No modern discovery or dive site identification has been documented associated with Little Georgy.

Resources & Links

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Little Georgy is a poorly documented vessel in the Swayze shipwreck index, noted only to have foundered in a gale on Lake Huron on 9 October 1912, with no additional details. No registry information, ownership, cargo, casualty, or wreck site data are currently known. Preservation of educational and field research value requires archival excavation and outreach to local historical institutions.