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Mysteries & Histories Benneath the Inland Seas

Saturday, April 24, 2010 - Event Starts at 7:00 PM


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

Location Details:
Holland, Michigan


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