First ever ship wreck in lake ontario?

Question

First ever ship wreck in lake ontario?

Answer 1

the edmund fitzgerald

Answer 2

I don't know the answer to your question but here is a link to ship wrecks of the Great Lakes.  The author of this site is very knowledgeable in this regard and can probably tell you exactly which boat was first to go down and where/when/how it happened.

Good luck:

http://greatlakeshistory.homestead.com/A...

Answer 3

Who was the guy who answered the Edmund Fitzgerald?  

That was on Superior.

It is believed the first recorded ship wreck was in the late 1600's at the mouth of the Niagara River.  It was in 1678 a vessel named the Frontenac.  Lost in a storm.

Dragged her anchors and went ashore after being stranded by adverse winds. Soon destroyed by wave action Probably the first decked vessel lost on the Great Lakes.

Answer 4

That would be debatable, all of the Great Lakes are a ship boneyard, dating back to wooden sailing ships,and probably before.

Answer 5

The Edmund Fitzgerald? That's Lake Superior  Moron! And in recent years (1975) in the comparitively large time frame involved.

I am searching and will get back...The earliest ships built in the Great Lakes pre-date the year 1700. It makes sense that a wreck occured in the mid 1700's. Certainly prior to the War of 1812.

Cudos to John M.   My money is also on the Frontenac. She dragged ashore near Youngstown/Niagara-on-the-Lake in a storm while waiting for building supplies for the ship Griffon  to be offloaded.

She broke up on January 8th,1679. She was not yet a year old and was built in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 1678.