The Holy Grail of Great Lakes wrecks

[Polak]

http://http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/386437

Interesting, it would be nice if they raised and made a museum out of her.

[Cohaagen]

Since the wreck is property of the MoD I think there is zero chance of it being raised or touched in any way.

[Sailor Steve]

For some reason I can't view the site.

[Takao]

google HMS Ontario, the find has been all over the news.

Let's hope the HMS Ontario is luckier than the USS Hamilton and USS Scourge. They are still lying on the bottom of Lake Ontario, in excellent condition, and they were discovered in 1973. Public interest was renewed in the late 70's and early 80's after Jacques Cousteau and the National Geographic explored the sunken ships. However, politics and financial difficulties have laid low every plan to raise the ships.

Good Luck HMS Ontario

[jumpy]

link shows advert page for H T T P . C O M a sponsered link for goods and services... :-?

[Syxx_Killer]

The site won't work for me, either. I saw the image on Subsim's main page. I am always amazed at how sunken ships on the Great Lakes stay so well preserved. Gotta love that fresh water! :lol:

Anyway, I'm not sure I would call this find the "Holy Grail". I think "Holy Grail" status would probably lay with this ship...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Griffon

[TLAM Strike]

The site won't work for me, either. I saw the image on Subsim's main page. I am always amazed at how sunken ships on the Great Lakes stay so well preserved. Gotta love that fresh water! :lol:

I don't think we call that alge filled sludge "fresh water" down here in Upstate NY. :p

But its fantastic it see that the ROVs devloped over at RIT (The Rochester Institute of Technology) are being put to good use. :rock: :up:

http://www.ronsrovlinks.nl/modules/impression/singlearticle.php?cid=3&aid=1832

Cohaagen is correct that it is a British wargrave. However they may have been 30 American POWs aboard making the issue of rasing it disputable.


War Grave Site
The shipwreck of the HMS Ontario is still considered to be British Admiralty property. The official record of the number of people on board the Ontario when she sank included: 74 military personnel, 9 women and children, 4 Indians, and 1 civilian. There were no prisoners-of-war officially listed by the British, however, private correspondence by an individual living at Fort Niagara indicated that there may have been a total of 120 people on board the ship including about 30 American prisoners. The shipwreck site of the Ontario is considered to be a British war grave and therefore should remain forever undisturbed.
^From the link I prevously posted.

Personaly I say keep it down there.

[Polak]

I don't know why the link is down, it worked before. The link on the main page of subsim also seems to be dead.


The Swedish government raised a 17th century warship during the 60's. It's a great museum now days.