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| Name | HMS Ontario |
| Namesake | Lake Ontario |
| Owner | Provincial Marine |
| Operator | Royal Navy |
| Builder | Carleton Island Dockyard |
| Laid down | October 1779 |
| Launched | 10 May 1780 |
| Fate | 31 October 1780 sank in Lake Ontario during a storm |
| Status | Shipwreck discovered in June, 2008 at more than 500 ft (150 m) depth |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sixth rate |
| Tons burthen | 226 tons[1] |
| Length | 80 ft (24 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Sail plan | Two-masted snow |
| Complement | 130 believed lost |
| Armament | 22 cannons |
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HMS Ontario was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on 31 October 1780, during the American Revolutionary War.[2] She was a 22-gun snow, and, at 80 feet (24 m) in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time.[2] The shipwreck was discovered in 2008. Ontario was found largely intact and very well preserved in the cold water. The wreck discoverers asserted that "the 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes."[2]
- ^ "Shipwreck Explorers Discover 1780 British Warship in Lake Ontario". Shipwreck World. 13 June 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
- ^ a b c William Kates (13 June 2008). "Explorers find 1780 British warship in Lake Ontario". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2008.