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. <
Was the Edmund Fitzgerald the last Great Lakes shipwreck to take lives? If not, what was?
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
I need co ordinates for wrecks of cape agulhas (southernmost point of Africa) Can anyone assist?
What is the Sahand frigate GPS point.?
How many shipwrecks are there in the Great Lakes area?
I'm looking for shipwrecks around the island Aruba and the coast of Falcon,Venezuela?
Would you kindly change the spelling of this listed wreck to that of Effie Mae - I am the owner of the vessel - Ted Walker
HELLOI'M LOOKING FOR A GOOD SET OF NUMBERS FOR THE WC RICHARDSON THE BOOK ONES ARE NOT WORKING FOR ME? THANKS TONY
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.