Maritime archaeologist and author Joseph W. Zarzynski will present a PowerPoint talk on a sunken fleet of historic warships at Lake George, New York that date to the French & Indian War (1755-1763). In the autumn of 1758, the British deliberately sank 260 bateaux, 25-35 ft. long wooden vessels. This “wet storage” of their wooden battlecraft protected them from French marauders over the winter of 1758-1759. Many of these flat-bottomed boats were not recovered by the British in 1759. Then two-centuries later, in 1960, two scuba divers rediscovered about a dozen submerged bateaux, vessels newspapers dubbed the “ghost fleet.” The ancient shipwrecks were first studied by the Adirondack Museum in the early 1960s, when three bateaux were raised and conserved. From 1987-2011, Zarzynski directed a team of volunteer archaeological divers, known as Bateaux Below, that studied many of these rare boats.
This lecture was recorded via Zoom on Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
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