OSWEGO (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 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.
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