The Search
- Underwater Archaeology
- Early Discoveries
- Exploration in the 1950s
- 1960 Discovery
- Raising 3 Bateaux
- Operation Bateaux 1963-64
- Bateaux Recovery 1965
- Bateaux Below
- Bateaux on the National Register
- Related exhibit:Raising the Fleet: An Art Science Initiative
- About the banner: The photo shows the south end of Lake George just off Fort William Henry. The historical marker notes the many vessels sunk in the lake by the British in 1758.
Computer-generated image of a colonial bateau based upon a 1758 bateau raised from the lake in 1960. The archaeological drawing was produced by Kevin Crisman (Image courtesy of John Whitesel).
Early Discoveries of "The Sunken Fleet of 1758"
As early as the 19th century, published accounts described onlookers seeing bateau shipwrecks in the lake's shallows. The June 10, 1893 issue of the Lake George Mirror newspaper reported that four sunken bateaux were visible on the lake bottom. The July 8, 1893 Lake George Mirror recorded that Henry L. Sherman "has in his possession a small piece of one of the sunken bateaux, sunk in the broad Lake off the Fort William Henry peer. Some winters ago a piece of plank was pulled from the side of the craft..."
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