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HMS Ontario (1780)
HMS ''Ontario'' was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on October 31, 1780, during the American Revolutionary War.〔 She was a 22-gun snow, and, at in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time.〔 The shipwreck was discovered in 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville. The ''Ontario'' was found largely intact and very well preserved in the cold water. Scoville and Kennard assert that "the 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes."
== History ==
The ''Ontario'' was built in 1780 on Carleton Island, a major base in the St Lawrence River for the British during the Revolutionary War, but now part of New York. She was operated by the Royal Navy for the Provincial Marine in the capacity of an armed transport.
At the time, the ''Ontario'' was the largest British warship to sail on the Great Lakes. She was launched just five months before she sank, and was used to ferry troops, supplies and prisoners from one remote part of New York to another. She never saw battle.
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