1874 Lake Ontario shipwreck found

OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) - Two shipwreck hunters have found the final resting place of a schooner that sank off Lake Ontario's southeastern shores nearly 140 years ago.

The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester reports ( http://on.rocne.ws/RifETO ) that Daniel Scoville and Chris Koberstein were searching for other wrecks this summer when they discovered the wreck of the Shannon, a coal schooner that was making a delivery to Ontario, Canada when it sank after leaving Oswego in June 1874.

The crew made it safely into a small boat and paddled the 20 miles back to Oswego.

Scoville and Koberstein say they were using side-scan radar when they came across a wreck that turned out to be the Shannon.

Scoville and another wreck hunter from the Rochester area, Jim Kennard, have found dozens of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes and elsewhere.