The Norwegian collier SS Storstad ran into her in the St. Lawrence River's dense fog. More than a thousand people perished as the ship sank in a matter of minutes. As a result of the more well-known sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania, the "Forgotten Empress" has been mostly forgotten. <
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How can i purchase this book. mhsmitchell@gmail.com?
Any word on the Marquette and Bessemer?, anyone
Dear JIm,Do you know of an estimate of the approximate number of lives lost in shipwrecks on Lake Ontario? Just curious susan P G
I'm looking for shipwrecks around the island Aruba and the coast of Falcon,Venezuela?
The steamer Roberval is the old Steamer SS Savoy owned by Henri Menier for Anticosti Island, capt J.B. Bélanger? go to the site www.Com
Do you have records for shipwrecks off the Norwegian coast?
If an ancient shipwreck is found off the coast of Zanzibar then whose property is it and who enforces this|?
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.