Indiana Metro Map
INDIANA CAMPING RESOURCES
ORGANIZATIONS WHICH OFFER WILDERNESS
CAMPING TRIPS
Central Indiana Wilderness Club, P.O. Box 44351, Indianapolis, IN 46244. This non-profit club sponsors backpacking, canoe-camping, horsepacking, and other wilderness camping trips throughout the year to destinations within Indiana as well as other parts of the country. A backpacking class and beginner’s trip is offered each spring.
Indianapolis Hiking Club, c/o Jean C. Ballinger, 7129 Chandler Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46217. This club offers occasional backpacking trips.
INFORMATION ABOUT STATE PARK CAMPGROUNDS
Indiana Division of State Parks, 616 State Office Building, Indianapolis, IN 46204; (317)232-4124.
STATE HIGHWAY MAP AND TRAVEL INFORMATION
Indiana Tourism, One North Capitol, Suite 700, Indianapolis, IN 46204; (800)782-3775;(800)289-6646.
Indiana Metro Map Photo Gallery
The wreck, known locally as Gordon’s Wreck’, is orientated in a SSE to NNW direction and sits in a 2-metre scour with the bows to the north. It lies on a seabed of gravel and sand in a general depth of 49 m (LAT). The wreck appears intact, but is upside down and in two halves with a debris field between the two parts. It stands about 5 m high at the bow section and slopes down gradually into the seabed towards the stern. The superstructure has collapsed underneath the hull and there is a small section where access would probably be possible. A boiler has been observed towards the stern and the whole wreck is a myriad of soft corals. Tidal streams are fairly strong and very few fish have been noted. The Otago (Official No. 4344) was an iron-hulled 1437-ton Swedish steam cargo ship measuring 73.5 m in length, with a 10. 23-m beam and a 4.97-m draught. Richardson, Duck and Co. at Thornaby, Stockton built and completed her as Yard No. 291 in October 1882; she was launched as the Carib (Official No. 84642) on 28 September 1882 for Anderson, Anderson and Co. at Stockton. The single iron screw was powered by a 145-nhp two-cylinder compound steam engine that used one double-ended boiler with four plain furnaces and 5.85 sq.m (63 sq. ft) of grate surface. The cylinders measured 73.66 cm and 139.7 cm with an 83.82-cm stroke (29 in. and 55 in. with a 33-in. stroke). T. Richardson and Sons manufactured the machinery at Hartlepool.
