USS George Washington, a sloop, was built in Providence, RI and used as a merchant ship before being commissioned as a naval vessel. I have
Has anyone published a "Wachter" type book for Lake Ontario, especially the southern shore between Sodus and Niagara?
Do you know if the USCG 56022 cable boat home station was Cleveland Harbor? My father ran the cable boat from Cleveland from 1967-1972.
Need 10 more Shipwrecks of the TI books for the Tibbetts Point Lighthouse Visitors Center. Please call me at 654 2834.Dona Cullen?
Why don't you have information on the The Lusitania???
Any info on a Spanish trade ship sunk in mid 1800's on Red River 25-30 miles south of Alexandria, Louisiana?
The largest ship on the great lakes in 1970's?
Need info on laker wrecked in Long Sault Rapids circa 1950-1954. Faces west. Down by stern. White stripes on funnel. Salvaged? Have photo.
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.