MarisStella - New Kit Hms Ontario 1780 1:48

The number of new kits coming to the market in recent years is truly amazing . Their quality and and variety hopefully show the interest and strength of our "hobby"
You are right.....but it was really time, that the market is moving and developing new kits with the newest production methods and good material.
The market is still full of kits developed 20 to even 40 years ago !!!
 
"Today" in Naval History: - better Yesterday

10th of May 1780 - Launch of HMS Ontario, a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on 31 October 1780, during the American Revolutionary War.

HMS Ontario
was a British warship that sank in a storm in Lake Ontario on 31 October 1780, during the American Revolutionary War. She was a 22-gun snow, and, at 80 feet (24 m) in length, the largest British warship on the Great Lakes at the time. The shipwreck was discovered in 2008 by Jim Kennard and Dan Scoville. Ontario was found largely intact and very well preserved in the cold water. Scoville and Kennard assert that "the 80-foot sloop of war is the oldest shipwreck and the only fully intact British warship ever found in the Great Lakes."

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