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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
Hey RG,I thought I recalled reading that the Lady was not intended to be sunk where it rests now,but further out into the lake.The story was that on it's way to a location past Lockes Island,it sank prematurely.Know anything about this? SS
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The following excerpt is taken from Farewell Old Mount Washington, by Edward H. Blackstone.
Following the completion of the building of Kimball’s Castle, the deck houses and superstructure were removed, with only the bare hull remaining.
On a fine Sunday morning in 1895, Maid of the Isles, which was under contract to the Boston and Main Railroad, and the Mineola were given orders to tow the hull to the deep part of the lake near Rattlesnake Island and sink her. Hawsers were attached to the hull and when all was ready the two boats, aided by a locomotive on the nearby railroad track, but a strain on the hawsers. The hull was soon water-borne and a load of heavy boulders, which had been brought alongside on a barge, was placed within it. When the hull had been towed clear of the cove, Maid of the Isles cast off her towline and left Mineola to tow the hull to the intended deep spot, open the sea-valves and let her sink.
As if in protest at this final indignity, the hull of the tired old Lady of the Lake decided to go no further. She lurched violently, taking a list to one side, and began to fill with water. Mineola hurriedly cast off her towline and all that remained of the Lady of the Lake settled to a last resting place in the steamboat lane opposite Glendale Cove.