The vessel
Show on the chart- Type
- Sooner Barge
- Built
- Pincton, Ontario, 1897
- Size
- 144.0 x 31.0 x 10.3
- Net tonnage
- 341
- Owner
- Canadian Steamship Lines LTD., A.W. Hepburn, Pincton, Ontario
- Cargo
- Coal
- Date lost
- September 17, 1916
- PHMC site number
- 36ER0339 ( http://www.phmc.pa.gov/Preservation/ )
Position 42.18492, -80.04398 (as charted by RSC, from the Regional Science Consortium shipwreck map)
Recorded location: GPS: 42 11.095 N 80 02.639 W (Erie Wrecks and Lights) 28 degrees (NNE 1/2 E) 2.84 miles from the fog bell located on the outer end of the north pier
The wreck today
The Rob Roy had left Erie on a run for Port Colbourne under tow of the tug Home Rule. After an hour, the Coast Guard Life Saving Station reported the Home Rule turned around to return to Erie when when Rob Roy foundered, or filled with water, and began to sink. The master of the barge, Alfred Dane, and his crew were taken aboard Home Rule and returned safely to shore. In subsequent testimony, it w