Canadian cameras to probe sunken U.S. warships from 1813

Canadian scientists will lower robotic probes to the bottom of Lake Ontario next week to conduct the most detailed examination ever of two American ships that sank in a storm during the War of 1812.

The investigation of the wrecks of the Hamilton and the Scourge - part of the buildup to bicentennial commemorations of the 1812-1814 war between Britain and the United States, fought largely in Canada - could include the first glimpses inside the sunken vessels, which contain the remains of about 50 American sailors lost in the failed invasion of Upper Canada.