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LEGEND OF THE LAKE - New Discovery Edition Book
A story two centuries in the making: LEGEND OF THE LAKE (Discovery Edition) The 22-Gun Brig-Sloop HMS Ontario, 1780  more ›

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200 Year Old “Dagger-Board” Schooner Discovered in Lake Ontario
A rare dagger-board schooner has been discovered in over 500 feet of water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario using deep towed side scan sonar equipment. Sailing vessels of this type were in use on the lakes for only a short period of time beginning in the very early 1800’s. This ship is the only dagger-board schooner known to have been found in the Great Lakes.  more ›

Shipwreck Explorers Discover 1780 British Warship in Lake Ontario
HMS Ontario, a British warship built in 1780 has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Shipwreck enthusiasts Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville located the ship utilizing sophisticated side scanning sonar and an underwater remote operated vehicle. HMS Ontario is the oldest confirmed shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship to have ever been found in the Great Lakes.  more ›

200 Year Old US Warship may be buried in creek in upstate New York
A 200 year old US warship may be buried in French Creek Bay near Clayton, New York. A cannon salvaged from the old hull of a shipwreck over a half century ago may be the link to the USS Oneida.  more ›

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Divers discover long-lost wreck off Rhode Island
NEWPORT — To the untrained eye, the scene that greeted John Stanford and Mark Munro 30 feet beneath Newport Harbor Saturday, Dec. 6, wouldn’t have looked like much: A massive pile of concretion and timbers covered in algae, seaweed, barnacles...  more ›

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news.bbc.co.uk Underwater footage from the wreck of a German U-boat sunk more than 90 years ago has been released.

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palltimes.com "On Saturday, Shipwreck discoverer Jim Kennard told the standing-room-only crowd at the 2009 Great Lakes Underwater Conference of his most recent and extremely rare find of a dagger board schooner at the bottom of Lake Ontario."

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numismaster.com "HMS Victory sank in the English Channel on Oct. 4, 1744, taking 1,150 sailors and four tons of Portuguese gold to the bottom of Davy Jones' locker. About 200,000 gold coins are believed to be part of the treasure, whose sinking caused a major...

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edition.cnn.com Deep-sea explorers say they have solved "one of the greatest mysteries in naval history" with the discovery of what was "the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship" when it sank in 1744.The HMS Victory -- the predecessor to a historic...

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msnbc.msn.com Lt. Cmdr. Jim Abele commanded the USS Grunion, a submarine sunk during World War II that was finally found by his sons on the slope of an underwater volcano near Kiska, at the western tip of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.

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orangebeach.ws "Hurricane Ike's winds devastated the Gulf Coast last weekend. However those same winds have also uncovered an ancient relic, a mystery ship. An unidentified wooden shipwreck discovered two years ago after Hurricane Ivan hit the Alabama Gulf Coast on...

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