Cannons in Fort Came from British Shipwreck-- Part 3: Tracing the Fort's Cannons

The 1950s newspaper articles also said the Looe Key cannons bore insignia indicating they belonged to the British Crown but the markings have disappeared after decades of New York winters.

In 1967, an arson fire destroyed many of the fort's records pertaining to the acquisitions.  A project began in 2014 to measure and document all of the Fort William Henry's 49 replica cannons and 19 historic ones.  This led to the research on the HMS Looe cannons.

The researchers discovered the caliber of the nine cannons matched that of ones that had been on the HMS Looe when it sank.

British Ship Cannons in a British Fort in New York.  --DaCannonCoot