Explorers find 1780 British warship in Lake Ontario

By WILLIAM KATES , Associated Press Writer, General Science / Archaeology & Fossils

This handout image from video released Friday, June 13, 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville, shows the crows nest and foremast of the sunken 228-year-old British warship HMS Ontario, a British warship built in1780 that has been discovered in deep water off the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Kennard and Scoville used side scanning sonar and an unmanned submersible to locate the HMS Ontario, which was lost with barely a trace and as many as 130 people on board during a gale in 1780. (AP Photo/ courtesy of Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville)

(AP) -- A 22-gun British warship that sank during the American Revolution and has long been regarded as one of the "Holy Grail" shipwrecks in the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario, astonishingly well-preserved in the cold, deep water, explorers announced Friday.

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Posted by superhuman 06/14/08 12:40

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So many years to find it and not even a chest full of gold coins to sweeten the joy?

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Posted by AdrianAnansi 06/15/08 03:06

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Why is this significant? What will we learn?

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Posted by Valentiinro 06/15/08 22:31

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We already learned it: Theres a new ship there.

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Posted by RustyBrown 06/20/08 11:12

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re "the HMS Ontario" (sic). HMS stands for His Majesty's Ship (or Her Majesty's Ship) so it makes no sense grammatically to put the "the" there. It's just HMS Ontario.

There is no "the" there.

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