HMS Speedy (1798)
The battle schooner or gunboat HMS Speedy sank in a blinding snowstorm in Lake Ontario south of Brighton, Ontario and west of Prince Edward County, on 8 October 1804, with the loss of all hands. The sinking changed the course of Canadian history because of the prominence of the citizens of the tiny colony of Upper Canada lost in the disastrous event.
The ship was built in 1798 at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard and transferred as government vessel.
Read more about HMS Speedy (1798): History, Circumstances, Final Journey, Disaster, Aftermath, Lost Souls, Memoriam
Famous quotes containing the word speedy:
“Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)