Posted by Scott McWilliam on August 26, 1999 at 02:33:39:
Well i guess we all have sites that peek our interest and one of mine has got me scratching my head.. Several WWI mine sweepers sailed out of Fort William off to combat in Europe. Two never made the Sue locks. There was some wreckage washed up on the Keewinaw, army grey baxes etc.
A sister ship survived the storm and there is a big storm account. A very well respected group of divers is sidescanning a probable taget area near the south shore. Frankly I like there method and it may prove effective it jives with most contemporary thinking on the subject, two ships travelling in close proxcity donw the lake in bad wheather and you have to be thinking collusion.
Alteritvly there is a small group of fishermen in Nippigon Ontario with a different hypothsis. They say they know were the two ships are (and in the finest tradition of wreck finders there not telling). They say they are on the nort shore and thsat the were deliberatel scuttled. The hypothsis is base on the precept that the War (or at least the sea war had ended. France had ordered a lot of war ships and didn't need them and didn't have a lot of money to pay for them.
The crews that were sent over were discribed as youg cadets, it has been sugested that some were what we would now call special forces. The job was just to get em out of sight and send two to the bottom. Albiet I am the first to find this a little fanciful and woundered if anyone was getting simalr accounts?