Would like to know who Cape Melville on Balabac Island, Philippines was named for.. The name first appeared about 1840. There were several M
Info re schooners from Muir Bros shipyard, Port Dalhousie 1870's. My grandfather skippered the Albatross which foundered Lake Huron 1920
Does anyone know if the fisheries and oceans side scan sonar images are avalible for the public to see?
Have you explored the depths of Rochester Basin? If so I have follow up questions regarding to topography of the lake floor having something
Have any wrecks been found at the bottom of Seneca Lake in upstate New York? The US Navy operates a research barge on the lake that patrols
Was there ever a movie based on Warder's exploits?
What were schooners created to do?
What is the large metal object in the niagara river, canadian side, on top of the horseshoe falls? When I was a child in the 1960s I notice
The National Museum of the Great Lakes is excited to announce the release of a new book titled Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario: A Journey of Discovery. This book contains stories of long lost shipwrecks and the journeys of the underwater explorers who found them, written by Jim Kennard with paintings by Roland Stevens and underwater imagery by Roger Pawlowski.
The recent discovery of the wreck of the British warship Ontario, “the Holy Grail” of Great Lakes shipwrecks, solves several mysteries that have puzzled historians since the ship sank more than two centuries ago. Now, for the first time, the whole tragic story of the Ontario can finally be told.