The Norwegian collier SS Storstad ran into her in the St. Lawrence River's dense fog. More than a thousand people perished as the ship sank in a matter of minutes. As a result of the more well-known sinkings of the Titanic and the Lusitania, the "Forgotten Empress" has been mostly forgotten. <
Is there any record of a person with the surname of HOWE who died as a result of a craft sinking in Lake Champlain after 1811.?
Who do I contact about an artifact from The Atlantic-Ogsdenburg wreck on Lake Erie in the 1850's which I have from my father?
Why was the edmund fitzgerald never brought up?
Gps location of ship wrecks Cayuga Lake, NY?
Do you have records for shipwrecks off the Norwegian coast?
Has The Le Griffon been found...?
What is the most famous shipwreck in the world?
Whats the largest wreck off long island?
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.