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Shipwreck · Lake Ontario

HMS Toronto

A schooner built in 1799, lost on Lake Ontario in 1811. The record: “Wrecked 1811.”

The vessel

On the record

Type
Schooner
Builder
John Dennis, York
Launched
September 1799
Fate
Wrecked 1811

The same decade

Ontario losses of the 1810s

Source

Vessel facts on this page come from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article HMS Toronto (1799), 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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