First it was announced that James Cook’s HMS Endeavour may have been found off Newport, RI. Now comes news that a schooner in Lake Erie may have been identified as perhaps the oldest wreckage ever found in Lake Erie, dating from 1829.
(AP) — Shipwreck hunters who spent eight days this summer unearthing and examining the remains of a schooner in Lake Erie in Ohio think it’s most likely a sailing ship that sank nearly two centuries ago.
That would make the wreckage the oldest ever found in the shallowest of the Great Lakes.
But there’s a bit of debate among the marine archaeologists and shipwreck hunters who are trying to identify the wreck about how confident they are it is indeed the Lake Serpent that sank in 1829. Read More
