Event
Kitchener Museum @ Kitchener, Ontario
Saturday, December 11, 2010 - Event Starts at 1:00 PM
Deep Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario
A trilogy of shipwreck discoveries. Each of the shipwrecks in this presentation were discovered in the deep waters of Lake Ontario from 360 feet to nearly 700 feet. One of these ships, a rare recently discovered “dagger-board” schooner, was located off of Oak Orchard, the only such ship of its type to have been found in the Great Lakes. The foundering of other two ships, over 100 years ago, were found in the areas of Sodus Point and Oswego.
http://www.shipwreckworld.com/story/shipwreck-explorers-discover-dagger-board-schooner.aspx
Plus: An update and short video on the discovery of the 230 year old British warship, HMS Ontario, found in 2008 by the shipwreck exploration team in Lake Ontario.
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.