Cannons in Fort Came from a Sunken British Ship-- Part 1: HMS Looe

March 30, 2016, Chicago Tribune "Project confirms N.Y. fort guns from Fla. shipwreck" by Chris Carola.

Research has determined that nine cannons displayed for the past 60 years at a re-created French and Indian War fort in upstate New York were originally aboard a British warship that sank in the Florida Keys in the 18th century.

Joseph Zarzynski said a study of all 68 cannons at Fort William Henry found that some, if not all, of the nine iron cannons likely came from the HMS Looe, which sank after hitting a reef in 1744.

He said  that when the fort originally opened in 1954 on the southern end of Lake George that some of the cannons came from a British shipwreck in the Keys.  The HMS Looe was a 44-gun frigate built in England in 1741.

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