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THE AT 7; ICK\ IN» DEFEAT OR THE A \J f,r i C A n Fleet under Bencdi > , -TTRINF I /•/ /•. UP ON F4* IKE ( H* f f $ In via bv\\ 'Jadrn (/Km/id ur>ss: * Eli SHIPWRECK DISCOVERY 50 years, ice of Lake m Burlington, Vt. searchers has disco a gunboat whii ledict Arnoli i American Revol survey in respoi sak of zebra mus l way to a vessel mi intact by cold wat ft. (125 m) deep,, which bored the treasure foCgmafce it Delivers jjOutcome j ittmk JN&Vft. (16 ^fll^il^iahboat part of. al 15-ship squadron - schooners t Royal and Reveng^ f|oop £uflbbat<*; We tence, Boston, Spitfii 1 .cutter/Lee?'; and row leys Trumbull, (Congress and ton — led by Arnold, who the one of four to "survive" the Battle of Valcour Island J*hicfc occurred on the lake in October 1776. Jersey ptured by the British and Congress wreckage as found in 1984, and Philadelphia, which", was discov- ered in 1935, is no^ s ,- (he , Smithsoniar t •mti'on^l '-Museut History. m display at Institution's of American American naval Lake Champlain during tionary War before The eighth what ow White! specification and ough'r defeated, the Vely thwarted Britain's advance down the Lake -TJiidson River corridor England from the Lth^rncolonies; for6- to ?etreat~ into tonty OfA Search Attempting^to\prevent an inva- sion aontindigenous zebra mus- sels on shipwrecks believed to be ei^o^l^e^ in Lake Champlain, a team of researchers conducted the .ke-wide survey which led to the uj scovery of the last "survivor\of .[_ A Apld's flotillaS ^Organized bj .Champlain Maritime Mi (;um (LCMM) Director Art Cc a team consisting of veteran l£l j^r6se|^rchers Capt. Fred Peter Barranco s with Middlebury :edlogists Patricia and Tom Manley and set sail on research vessel Neptune, owned an$Jr operated by Capt. Fayette. The & steel-hulled vessel Empowered by two Chrysler \225 engines and features a Kohler 7.5-kW generator. / Using a zone and grid system, sections of the lake were divided and survey lines were set one to two milgs -long and 246 ft. (75 m) apafe''Na>ftgatiGftand positioning was achieved through a Northstar 94IX DGPS which, along with a Cetrek auto pilot system and video platter sfnd a Raytheon R40 raster Neptune 32.8 ft. (10 m) off the bot- tom; of the lake. A Wesmar SS2645 focjvard-looking sonar was used to protect the transducer and to avoid any obstacles. Primary depth information was collected with a S^iiruno FCV667 color video Sdunder. The heart of the data acquisition system