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. <
What is the world's deepest shipwreck?
Why was the edmund fitzgerald never brought up?
I am interested in any information available concerning the Whelan which sank in Lake Erie , near Dunkirk, on July 29, 1930.?
I am looking for any information on shipwrecks in Oneida Lake NY
Is that Quagga mussels all over the Lost Deck Cargo?
2014 marks the 100th anniverary of the sinking of The Empress of Ireland. Mr Ian Kinder (author) has published a great coffee table book.?
Schooner John Burt off Sandy Pond in Lake Ontario - Has anyone in recent years dived on the John Burt and have images and/or video?
Texanita?
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.