What were schooners created to do?
I know you research shipwrecks. but do you have any advice for finding a ship captain who plyed the st. lawrence river between1800-1850?
Why hasn't a nuclear submarine been named "Arizona" yet? Would it be seen as disrespectful?
Is there maps of lake Ontario that show something the size of a foot ball?
My Father-in-law was William P. Bethke, one of the C-45 passengers from the A.F. that landed in Lake Ontario.?
Was there ever a movie based on Warder's exploits?
How can you track ships where they are?
Have any wrecks been found at the bottom of Seneca Lake in upstate New York? The US Navy operates a research barge on the lake that patrols
The National Museum of the Great Lakes is excited to announce the release of a new book titled Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario: A Journey of Discovery. This book contains stories of long lost shipwrecks and the journeys of the underwater explorers who found them, written by Jim Kennard with paintings by Roland Stevens and underwater imagery by Roger Pawlowski.
The recent discovery of the wreck of the British warship Ontario, “the Holy Grail” of Great Lakes shipwrecks, solves several mysteries that have puzzled historians since the ship sank more than two centuries ago. Now, for the first time, the whole tragic story of the Ontario can finally be told.