{"id":9,"date":"2009-07-10T13:13:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T17:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T20:14:40","slug":"sunken-1812-vessel-may-be-hms-wolfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/sunken-1812-vessel-may-be-hms-wolfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunken 1812 vessel may be <em>HMS Wolfe<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/life\/Somnia\/1683034\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/a> about a recently discovered wreck near Kingston, which may be the remains of <em>HMS Wolfe<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A team of divers is set to plunge into Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ont., next week in a bid to confirm the discovery of a legendary Canadian-built ship from the War of 1812, the HMS Wolfe.<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with marine archeologists from Parks Canada, the divers plan to take detailed measurements, drawings and photographs of a sunken wooden sailing vessel that appears to match the size and last known location of the famous 32-metre sloop: the flagship of British naval commander James Yeo and star of a dramatic 1813 battle west of Toronto that helped thwart the U.S. invasion of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected discovery comes just three years before the 200th anniversary of the war, adding urgency to the efforts to identify a possible new showcase relic for bi-national commemoration activities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cross-posted to the old blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005570.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bolditalic.com\/quotulatiousness_archive\/005570.html<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article in the Ottawa Citizen about a recently discovered wreck near Kingston, which may be the remains of HMS Wolfe: A team of divers is set to plunge into Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ont., next week in a bid to confirm the discovery of a legendary Canadian-built ship from the War of 1812, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[1252,30,87,851,566],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","tag-greatlakes","tag-navy","tag-ontario","tag-tallships","tag-warof1812"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17233,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/17233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}