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The Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Ontario off the coast of the U.S. state of New York.It protects 41 known historically significant shipwrecks spanning 200 years of American maritime history, as well as 19 potential shipwreck sites.
Eastern Lake Ontario in 90 feet (27 m) of water Olive Branch: 30 September 1880 Schooner Oliver Mowat: 9 January 1921 Schooner Onondaga: A schooner off Stony Point, New York. HMS Ontario Royal Navy: 31 October 1780 A British 22-gun brig-sloop sunk in a storm on Lake Ontario, discovered in 2008. The oldest shipwreck ever found on the Great Lakes.
The sonar imagery clearly showed a large sailing ship resting upright at an angle, with two masts reaching up at least 70 feet (21 m) above the bottom of the lake. The high resolution images showed the remains of two crow's nests on each mast, strongly suggesting that the sunken vessel was the brig-sloop Ontario.
The site of the sunken ships was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1976. [8] [9] The Ontario Heritage Act was amended in 2005 to provide special protection to the shipwrecks of the Hamilton, the Scourge, and the SS Edmund Fitzgerald because of their historical and cultural significance and because they contain human remains. [10]
This includes shipwrecks on Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes in North America. ... St. Peter (shipwreck) USS Sylph (1813) T. HMS Toronto (1799) W. HMS Wolfe (1813)
Ship Flag Sunk date Notes Coordinates HMS Alert Royal Navy: 1791 A 4-gun schooner that was wrecked in Charlottetown harbour or Hillsborough Bay, possibly salvaged and broken up in 1799. Eagle Canada: 1 September 1922 A cargo ship that was crushed by pack ice and sank 28 kilometres (15 nmi) off North Cape. George N Orr United States: 4 December 1917
As the storm continued to rage, the ship came apart, eventually killing 46 people. The wreck of the Algoma was the worst loss of life in the history of Lake Superior shipping. [5] 2: Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Sites: Amboy and George Spencer Shipwreck Sites: April 14, 1994 : Lake Superior shore about a mile southwest of Sugar Loaf Cove [6
Late on the afternoon of October 26, 1898, St. Peter was sailing in southeastern Lake Ontario off the coast of New York westbound for Toledo, Ohio, [2] with a cargo of 607 short tons (542 long tons; 551 tonnes) of "chestnut coal" [4] when she encountered a blizzard with gale-force winds. [2]