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Bay State

Wooden Schooner · United States · Lost 19th century · Lake Ontario & the St. Lawrence

A wooden schooner named Bay State lost on Lake Ontario, documented only in outline.

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Artistic recreation based on recorded historical documents. See the documented evidence.

Interpretive Reconstruction, drawn to convey the vessel's era, type and general form. See the documented evidence.

The Vessel and Her Loss

Bay State was a wooden sailing schooner engaged in Lake Ontario trade. Precise details of her construction and loss are sparse in accessible records. She is known through regional wreck inventories rather than detailed narrative accounts. Her exact fate remains only generally documented.

Vessel

Built: Not established
Builder: Not established
Yard: Not established
Material: Wood
Length: Not established
Beam: Not established
Tonnage: Not established
Propulsion: Sail
Owners: Not established

Loss

Date: 19th century
Cause: Not established
Location: Lake Ontario
Water: Lake Ontario
Voyage: Not established
Cargo: Not established
Aboard: Not established
Lives lost: Not established
Master: Not established

The Wreck Today

Depth: Not established
Condition: Not established
Orientation: Not established
Discovered: Not established
Protection: Not established

Position

Coordinates: 43.502° N 76.535° W
Accuracy: Surveyed position
Nearest: Lake Ontario, New York
Region: Lake Ontario & the St. Lawrence

Jim Kennard and Roger Pawlowski's 2015 side-scan sonar discovery off Fair Haven, NY is documented with a specific coordinate (43°30'06"N 76°32'05"W) in the NOAA sanctuary shipwreck list (via Wikipedia), corroborated by National Museum of the Great Lakes and multiple news reports of the find.