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Great Lakes Underwater - 2010

Saturday, March 6, 2010 - Event Starts at 9:00 AM

Discovery of HMS Ontario

HMS Ontario is one of the most significant and the oldest shipwreck discoveries ever made in the Great Lakes. The Ontario foundered in a northeast gale on Lake Ontario in 1780. The Ontario is the only fully intact British warship from that period that is still in existence in the world.

http://www.oswegomaritime.org/glu.html

http://www.shipwreckworld.com/story/shipwreck-explorers-discover-1780-british-warship-in-lake-ontario.aspx

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Oswego, New York

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Legend of the Lake - New Discovery Edition Book

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. Buy Now!

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