Lost 1967 - Steel auxiliary schooner yacht (a charter yacht by the 1960s)
Ramona began life as Ohonkara, a 109 ft steel schooner launched by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at Bristol, Rhode Island, in January 1920 for Carll Tucker of New York. Renamed Ramona by the late 1920s, she passed through a string of wealthy owners, served the US Navy as a coastal patrol vessel (IX-76) off California in 1942-43, appeared in the 1959 film A Summer Place, and was briefly renamed Lady Phyllis. In 1962 she took back the name Ramona, moved to Marigot Bay, St Lucia, and sailed under the British flag for a Bahamian company. A third mast was reportedly added in Nova Scotia.
In late November 1967 she left Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, for St Lucia with ten people aboard. On the night of 2 December, in a storm, she struck the northern reefs near North Rock, probably after misjudging the beacon. Her flares brought no help, and the wreck was only spotted next morning by a St George's fisherman; boats and aircraft then joined the search. Five people died - four young St Lucians and a Canadian doctor. Survivors accused the captain, William MacKay (the spelling of his name varies), of drunkenness, which he denied; a Marine Board of Inquiry cancelled his master's certificate but he faced no criminal charges.
Three Bermudians - John Chiappa, Stephen Dallas and Rudolph 'Silks' Richardson - bought the wreck and after months of work brought her into Dockyard, but she was beyond saving. Stripped of anything useful, she was sunk in about 60 ft in the old dumping ground off Dockyard, where her bow came to rest inside the sunken Floating Dry Dock (see The Dry Dock).
The Ramona lies with her bow inside the wreck of the Floating Dry Dock, which the Custodian of Historic Wrecks has classified as a restricted wreck under the Historic Wrecks Act 2001, so the site is not open to recreational divers. Berg (1991) describes the pair in about 60 ft off Dockyard.