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Shipwreck Weekend at the Sodus Bay Lighthouse - July 12th: Sodus Point, NY

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Shipwreck Presentation on July 12th : Sodus Point, New York

Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario - A Journey of Discovery

Speaker and shipwreck explorer Jim Kennard will be presenting from 1-3pm at the Community Center located at 159 Bay St. Sodus Point, NY

The presentation is a personal and historic exploration of some of the most important shipwrecks discovered in Lake Ontario by Kennard’s team and shipwreck peers as he takes the audience on a 50-year journey of shipwreck exploration. Their finds include the two oldest shipwrecks discovered in the Great Lakes: The British warship Ontario (1780) and the sloop Washington, lost in 1803.

His book Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario – A Journey of Discovery and the ground-breaking book Legend of the Lake, the story of the British warship Ontario will be available for purchase as part of the program.

 


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Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario - A Journey of Discovery Book

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.

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Legend of the Lake - New Discovery Edition Book

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.

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