Tag: Tuesday November

Tremendous Battle on Lake Ontario – War of 1812 – Team Looking for Wreck of HMS Wolfe

By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 15, 2009

This month a Canadian dive team is expected to search the water near Kingston, Ontario for the wreck of the HMS Wolfe, later renamed the HMS Montreal. Battle of the USS General Pike & HMS Wolfe Archives of Ontario, Image S 1431.   Launched 5 May 1813 the HMS Wolfe was the flagship of... (Read More)

Passenger Lists

By Thomas Jay Kemp on June 13, 2009

GenealogyBank is growing – it now has nearly 300 million items. This morning I found this passenger list – published as a souvenir handbill that was likely given to the passengers on the steamship Silesia when it left on Tuesday November 30, 1869 bound for Plymouth, Cherbourg, London and Hamburg. In addition to the... (Read More)