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The General Butler was a schooner-rigged sailing canal boat that plied the waters of Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal in the United States states of Vermont and New York. Built in 1862 and named for American Civil War General Benjamin Franklin Butler, she sank after striking the Burlington Breakwater in 1876, while carrying a load of marble.
The wreck of Water Witch was discovered in 1977 by Derek Grout, a Canadian diver. It is considered one of the oldest fully intact commercial sailing ships located underwater in the United States [2] The schooner lies on the bottom of Lake Champlain between New York and Vermont. The vessel is historically significant for its history and ...
The O.J. Walker was a sailing schooner that was built to sail both on Lake Champlain and on the waters of the Champlain Canal after it was widened. She was 85.8 feet (26.2 m) long, with a beam of about 14.5 feet (4.4 m) and a hold depth of about 6.5 feet (2.0 m).
With the high water flow after flooding a variety of debris floats down rivers and ... University of Vermont and the Lake Champlain Basin Program. ... It began sailing Lake Champlain July 23, 2023
Lake Champlain is home to many rare and endangered species of plants and animals, including 318 species of birds in Vermont that live on, near, or depend on the lake, and over 90 species of fish.
Owen Milne, executive director of the Community Sailing Center, as seen on Feb. 9, 2024, in the nonprofit's offices on the Lake Champlain waterfront with Emily Ridgeway, the Sailing Center's ...
Lake Champlain in Burlington Harbor during sunset on May 27, 2012. Lake Champlain is in the Lake Champlain Valley between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York, drained northward by the 106-mile-long (171 km) Richelieu River into the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, northeast and downstream of Montreal.
The Phoenix was built in 1815 by the Lake Champlain Steam-boat Company at its shipyard in Vergennes, Vermont, under the direction of Jahaziel Sherman. She was the second steamer to sail on Lake Champlain, after the Vermont (launched in 1808), which was the first regularly operated steamship anywhere.