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This article should probably be renamed HMS Toronto (1799) for consistency with ships with identical names leading off a {{shipindex}} at the undisambiguated name. There was also a HMS Toronto (1834) launced as Sir Charles Adam in 1834, purchased by the RN in 1838, named Toronto in 1839, sold in 1843. (see [1] and [2] ) 76.66.195.190 (talk) 13:29, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wrecked off Hanlan's Point?

Hmmm. The article on Ned Hanlan says he was born to "Irish parents" in 1855. I checked, just in case the Hanlan's family history in Toronto really did stretch back to prior to 1811. Since it doesn't I suggest it is a mistake for the article to say the vessel was "wrecked off Hanlan's Point in 1811". It could say something like the vessel was "wrecked off the western tip of the Toronto Islands, near what is now known as Hanlan's Point."

We have old maps from the period, and I have a vague recollection the western tip was then called "Gibraltar Point"

There has been a lot of landfill in the last 200 years. The original sandbank terminated in a fan of long narrow northward pointing fingers. The actual spot of the wreck could be considerably inland of the current Hanlan's Point. Geo Swan (talk) 20:26, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]