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Dr. Ben Ford - Historical and Underwater Archaeologist - Indiana University of Pennsylvania
The Search for the War of 1812 Warships.
During the War of 1812, American and British shipbuilders at Sackets Harbor and Kingston produced more than 20 warships for use on Lake Ontario, some carrying more than 100 cannons. But with the end of the war, these ships no longer had a purpose. Some were sold, some were scrapped, some wrecked, and some sank at anchor. Recent interdisciplinary work has endeavored to identify which of these ships still remain to be found and to search for two of them in New York’s Black River Bay. The Black River Bay survey combined archaeological and geophysical techniques in an attempt to identify the remains of an armed barge and the frigate Mohawk. |
