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Ontario was built in 1780 on Carleton Island, a major base in the St Lawrence River for the British during the Revolutionary War, but now part of New York. She was operated by the Royal Navy for the Provincial Marine in the capacity of an armed transport. [3] At the time, Ontario was the largest British warship to sail on the Great Lakes. She ...
HMS Ontario (1755), a Royal Navy schooner captured in 1756; HMS Ontario (1780), a Royal Navy brig-sloop that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario during the American Revolutionary War and whose wreck was discovered in June 2008 between Niagara and Rochester. HMS Ontario (1813), a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop ordered as HMS Mohawk and sold off ...
Badge of HMCS Ontario. HMCS Ontario can refer to several ships: HMS Ontario (1780), a sixth-rate warship of the Provincial Marine (of then British North American Province of Quebec) and operated by the Royal Navy in Lake Ontario; sunk 1780; HMCS Ontario (C53), a Minotaur-class cruiser transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1944 and scrapped ...
HMS Traveller: Niagara Dock Company: 1838: Ex-merchant ship, purchased at Niagara on 30 April 1839 and sold in 1844 HMS Montreal: Canada: 1836: A two-masted schooner (may not have had an engine) purchased for use on Lake Erie on 18 October 1839. Sold 1848 HMS Minos: Chippawa, Ontario: June 1840: Sold to Mr Weston in March 1852 HMS Sydenham ...
HMCS Ontario was a Minotaur-class light cruiser built for the Royal Navy as HMS Minotaur (53), but transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on completion and renamed Ontario. [ 2 ] HMS Minotaur was laid down on 20 November 1941 by Harland & Wolff of Belfast and launched on 29 July 1943. [ 2 ]
A new 3D scan has revealed previously unseen details of the wreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, which was found in 2022 – more than a century after the ship sank.
HMS Ontario (1780) HMS Orpheus (1780) Osterley (1780 EIC ship) P. French cutter Pandour (1780) Pigot (1780 Indiaman) Q. Queen Charlotte (1789 ship) R. HMS Repulse (1780)
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