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HMS Ontario was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on 31 October 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. [2] She was a 22-gun snow , and, at 80 feet (24 m) in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time. [ 2 ]
On November 6, 1803, the Canadian sloop departed Niagara, Ontario, bound for Kingston, Ontario. She disappeared in a severe storm with the loss of all on board. Wreckage from Washington washed up on the coast of New York near Oswego on November 7. Her wreck, discovered near Oswego in June 2016, is the earliest known shipwreck in the sanctuary ...
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 ...
This includes shipwrecks on Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes in North America. ... HMS Ontario (1780) S. HMS St Lawrence (1814) USS Scourge (1812) HMS Speedy (1798)
After the ship met its fate in the water and became wrecked while pursuing the Spanish into the Gulf of Mexico, around 300 crew members were marooned for over two months on a small island off the ...
Many ships for the war were built at the island along the southeast shores of North Bay, including the recently discovered HMS Ontario. [14] Other known vessels built include: HMS Mississauga 1792 – warship; HMS Limnade 1780–81 – warship [15] The wreck of HMS Haldimand, a 150-ton British snow schooner built in 1771, lies in North Bay. [16]
All survived. It is now a national park in La Caleta, Santo Domingo. Imperiale French Navy: A French ship lost in the Battle of Palenque, in the 17th century, in Palenque, Bani. RP-14 Limon: An old tugboat 155 feet (47 m) long that rests in about 80 feet (24 m) of water very close to the Hickory in the same park. This ship was scuttled there ...
HMS Ontario – she sank in a storm on 31 October while en route from Fort Niagara to Oswego. About 130 men went down with the ship, consisting of soldiers, crew and prisoners of war. [4] News of the ship's sinking was kept quiet for a number of years to hide the military loss. [5] 130–172 1777 United States