The Oldest British Warship in the Great Lakes
In 1780, a British warship named H.M.S. Ontario sank in the Great Lakes area, but it wasn’t found until 2008 around the Niagara and Rochester areas in New York. Surprisingly enough this ship, which has been dubbed the oldest British Warship discovered in the Great Lakes, had remained intact for the most part.
But 35 years before the ship was found, a man named Jim Kennard had started looking for the ship that sank during a storm several centuries earlier. It’s said that 130 crew members died that day. But it wasn’t until Kennard teamed up with Dan Scoville that they were able to find the Ontario in just three years.