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. <
How did captain John Lowes die?
Has any shipwreckage been found in the ohio river around cincinnati?
How many shipwrecks are found from year 2000 to 2016?
USS Arctic wreck in 1854? Location of wreck? Result of collision with French ship?
Does anyone know Wrecks around Galveston,TX
Were there American prisoners aboard and are there names? Do we have name of the Captain? Did it play any part earlier in the Revolution
Has Jim or anyone dove to the "HARTFORD" U95229 three mast schooner foundered in 1894, Lake Ontario, Mexico Bay.
I was a member of the crew on CG 56022 when it sank in Lake Ontario. Thus far all the stories I have read about the sinking are untrue.?
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.