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Finding HMS Ontario's grave

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« on: June 22, 2008, 04:48:32 am »

Finding HMS Ontario's grave


 
The 22-gun brig-sloop HMS Ontario sank suddenly on Oct. 31, 1780, in deep water somewhere between Niagara and Rochester. 120 people died in the wreck. 
 


Photo gallery HMS Ontario found (.pdf map) British Admiralty records list 88 people on HMS Ontario when the ship went down — 74 crewmen and troops, among them Lt.-Col. Masson Bolton, commander of Fort Niagara; four women, including Bolton's wife; five children; four Indians; and a civilian merchant.

But letters from Fort Niagara, where the ship began its final voyage, indicate that it also carried about 30 American prisoners, bringing the death toll closer to 120.

Bolton reportedly was in poor health and heading for England to have the rotten teeth removed that were thought to be poisoning him.

Fort Niagara, near Youngstown, NY, was ceded to the Americans at the end of the War of Independence in 1783 but remained under British control for several years and was recaptured by British troops during the War of 1812. It was eventually handed back to the U.S.
Deep in Lake Ontario, two-man team finds 228-year-old shipwreck almost perfectly intact

Jun 14, 2008 04:30 AM
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