Rindlisbacher Marine Art

    A scene from the head of navigation on the Niagara River on the last autumn before the war was declared. The merchant schooner the Mary Hatt heads back downstream, with an Oneida Indian canoe in the

   

   

    Reflections on the water, like canoes, are most fond of sheltered conditions or an absence of wind. This painting was commissioned by activists who were fighting against high-rise development along L

    September 11, 1813, the day after the battle as the combined squadron of 15 American ships and captured British return to Put-in-Bay in a westerly wind and pleasant conditions. While spectators marve

    This purpose-built schooner was launched in 1815 near the Niagara River, served in Lake Erie for two years, then was transferred to Lake Huron. The war was over, peace was holding and she is seen run

    HMS Royal George took shelter close inshore near Point Mississauga in Kingston Harbour. This battle could have ended very differently with huge consequences for the war if not for rough weather in th

    The U. S. schooner Hamilton emerges from the naval base, with the warship General Pike under construction on shore. In late May 1813 while the American squadron was at the other end of the lake, the

    The American answer to the British launching of the St. Lawrence, a 104-gun ship-of-the-line, was to begin building two even larger ones, one of which is shown here. Neither of these was ever launche

    A British revenue cutter makes a passage past the Huron Church and village of Sandwich. The ambassador Bridge now spans this location on the Detroit River linking Windsor with Detroit.

    The small hamlet of Sandwich later grew into the City of Windsor, but at this time following defeat on Lake Erie and the subsequent retreat of the British, it was easily occupied by American forces.

    Built in 1817, for the new upper lakes naval base in Penetanguishene, the Bee was one of the smaller, less labour intensive vessels that were used in the post-war era.

    The schooner WILLIS sank in Lake Erie with a load of iron ore in November 1872 at the end of her first season.

   

    The Nelson was the largest gunboat with a 24-pdr. cannon and 32-pdr. carronade. Gunboats were used extensively by the British and the Americans in the fight for mastery of the St. Lawrence. They were

    Several 1812-era ships caught in an afternoon thunder storm. Sailing can be challenging on the Detroit River because of rapidly changing weather.

    About 8:00 in the evening, October 19, 1814, Lake Ontario off Niagara. Flagship HMS S. Lawrence takes a strike to her mainmast while hove to. HM Ships Prince Regent and Princess Charlotte are seen in

    An aging wooden-hulled bulk freighter, the COLONIAL sank 7 miles west of Erieau, ON in November 1914 with a load of hard coal.

    One of twolarg open boats employed to chart the complex geography of Georgian Bay in the period after the War of 1812.

    The naval schooner, the Tecumseth at anchor, drying her sails in the naval base at Penetanguishene. She was built too late to serve in the war.