Lost 1890 - Two-masted schooner
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The Apollo was a small American two-masted wooden schooner, built in Maine in 1873. Her licence papers, as quoted by Daniel and Denise Berg, describe a boat of just 36 ft with a 14 ft beam and 12 gross tons, owned by William Elmello of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Like many New England schooners she worked the salt trade: salt raked from the pans of the Turks Islands was a staple cargo north, and Bermuda lay squarely on the route.
In February 1890, under Captain Jones and bound from Turks Island to Nova Scotia with salt, she was wrecked on Bermuda's reefs. With a cargo that dissolves and a wooden hull, little of such a vessel would survive for long.
The remains dived under her name lie broken up along the South Shore breakers in about 20 ft of water, but Berg is careful to call them unidentified: the link between this wreckage and the Apollo rests on local tradition rather than proof. The old version of this site placed it near Hungry Bay.
Berg's 1991 guide describes scattered remains on the South Shore breakers in about 20 ft. No current dive-operator guide or Government listing covers the site and no coordinates are published; expect scant remains (ballast and fastenings at most) in shallow, surge-prone water. Treat this as a historical entry.