Engineering:General Brock (wreck, 1846)

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Pigeon Island, where the vessel ran aground, is in the NE quadrant of this map.

The General Brock was a sailing brig that ran aground on November 26, 1846, on Pigeon Island, Lake Ontario, in Canada .[1] Her crew were rescued by officials from the nearby naval base at Kingston, Ontario.

The wreck of the General Brock was one of the triggers for the construction of a lighthouse on the island, in 1870.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "General Brock (Brig), aground, 26 Nov 1846". Maritime History of the Great Lakes. 1846. http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/56297/data. Retrieved 2017-06-22. 
  2. ↑ Marc Seguin (2015). "For Want of a Lighthouse: Building the Lighthouses of Eastern Lake Ontario 1828–1914". Trafford Publishing. ISBN 9781490756714. https://books.google.com/books?id=1W_zCAAAQBAJ&dq=Scotch+Bonnet+Island&pg=PT180. Retrieved 2017-06-22. 



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