Hamilton–Scourge Survey Expedition
The ''Hamilton''–''Scourge'' survey expedition was launched in May 1982, sponsored by the Hamilton-Scourge Foundation and the National Geographic Society. It was an underwater exploration of Lake Ontario intended to locate, confirm the identities of, film, and photograph two American schooners that had sunk in a violent storm on August 8, 1813, during the War of 1812. The mission was successful. Searching for the two small ships 160 years later, even with their approximate location known, was like looking for a needle in a hay stack. The search had ended unsuccessfully in the autumn of 1973 when Hamilton resident Capt. Archie Hodge, turned his research vessel, Porte Dauphine, for home at Canada Centre for Inland Waters. Hodge, a Second World War naval veteran who had spent the war searching for submarines in the North Atlantic, decided to put down his sonar one last time. A likely location for the and the had been proposed in 1973 by Daniel A. Nelson, a dentist and amateur a ...
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