North Star

Depth 80-100 ft | Length 299 ft | Launched 1889 | Lost 1908 in collision with a sister ship

On the cold foggy morning in November, 1908, North Star met her fate, in the hands of her sister ship, Northern Queen. The two vessels collided in the dense fog with Northern Queen ramming the Star in the starboard side close to bow, resulting in the hole being so huge, it took bare minutes for the Star to sink. Before she sunk, however, her crew did launch the lifeboats and made it safely to the sister ship.

North Star is in a very collapsed state. It is almost split in three pieces with the bow separated from the rest of the ship by a gap about 15-20 ft wide.

Highlights include a huge triple expansion engine, sitting perfectly upright and intact at the depth of 100 ft and twin boilers that fell to the starboard side while sinking. Anchors are still sitting around the bow, and the prop is still in its place at the stern.

Regina

Depth 60-83 ft/ Length 250ft/ steel propeller/ Launched 1907 in Dumbarton Scotland/ Lost Nov. 9, 1913

Regina was one of the large eight freighters to go missing with all hands during the infamous Lake Huron storm of November 9, 1913.

Unlike Wexford that landed on the bottom upright, five others that have been found to date are all upside down, including the 250' Regina. The smaller size of Regina was by design - she was a "canaler", meaning she was constructed specifically to fit into the locks of the Welland Canal. Regina was found in 1987, by accident, when two local divers were looking for Mary Alice B and suddenly realized they stumbled upon a much larger vessel.

We heard the story of the finding while riding the boat to dive her - apparently, the divers that found her only had one tank of air left between the two of them. One went down and did not come back for a while. When he finally surfaced, he asked the others on the boat - "if you were to find only one wreck in all your life, what would it be?" "Regina" said the other diver. With that, the diver in the water raised his hands with a bottle of champagne in each and said "We found it"

Highlights include massive propeller and rudder; name still visible in two areas; anchor on the bow; masts on the side.