The Caraquet Wreck

The Caraquet was a British mail Iron steamship, approximately 200 feet long, sailing for the Royal Steam Packet Company in London. Built in 1894, she sank on June 25th 1923 in fog on a rough sea after a miscalculation brought the ship to wreck on our northern barrier reef approximately 16 km to the north-west of Fort St. Catherine. The wreckage is spread out over a wide area covering almost 2 acres in 35 to 40 feet of water. The most distinctive portions of the wreckage are her engine, four prominent boilers.