Shipwreck · Lake Ontario · Foundered
USS Sylph
A schooner built in 1813, lost on Lake Ontario in 1823. The record: “Sunk, 1823.”
Lost on Lake Ontario
1823
USS Sylph
Schooner · built 1813 · lost 1823
Wreck site not published in the record we draw from.
The vessel
On the record
- Type
- Schooner
- Builder
- Henry Eckford
- Launched
- 18 August 1813
- Propulsion
- Sail
- Fate
- Sunk, 1823
- Lake
- Lake Ontario
The story
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Source
Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article USS Sylph (1813), retrieved 2026-10-11. We print the fields as recorded and add nothing; a missing field means the record is silent. Tonnage and dimensions were often measured more than one way in their day, so they can differ between sources.
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