LaSalle's Griffon has not been found. Over the years there have been 22 claims of the discovery of the Griffon. There is an excellent book written by Cris Kohl on the Griffon and the various discovery claims. See: http://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/the-wreck-o... We believe that the Griffon most likely totally wrecked in Lake Michigan and the question is where and still to be determined.
During a dive in 1975 I recovered a porthole from the wreck of the SS Oregon off Long Island NY Does this artifact have value?
Boat motor found – Lake Ontario
USS George Washington, a sloop, was built in Providence, RI and used as a merchant ship before being commissioned as a naval vessel. I have
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Were there American prisoners aboard and are there names? Do we have name of the Captain? Did it play any part earlier in the Revolution
How impossible would it be to raise the lake ontario shipwrecks?
Why are most shipwrecks on Lake Ontario on the east side?
How deep are the waters off the coast of Savannah, Georgia?
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.