2014 marks the 100th anniverary of the sinking of The Empress of Ireland. Mr Ian Kinder (author) has published a great coffee table book.?
The largest ship on the great lakes in 1970's?
What happaned to the Empress of ireland. It was sunk in the St. Lawrence River around the time the Titanic sun (1912)????
who was the captain of the ship or is this known yet?
This wreck was previously described in a published account dated 8/17/10. Do you have plans to acknowledge the earlier team?
Anyone familiar with keuka lake, ny. I did my open water dive in 1972 there. I remember a volkwagan, small cabin crusier ,and I believe some
Gordon Kent Bellrichards?
Do you have any information about a Great Lakes shipbuilder and Capt. named George S. Weeks sometimes called G S Weeks?
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.