Wikipedia User B86d51 is Dan Buchanan of Brighton, Ontario, Canada. He is a historian, genealogist, writer and public speaker who specializes in Ontario and Canadian history in the early and middle decades of the 1800s. He is known as The History Guy of Brighton and is active in local and regional history projects.
The reason for creating an account in Wikipedia at this time is to provide an updated version of the story of HMS Speedy, both the historical events that led to the loss of the ship in 1804 and the events in the 1990s regarding the search for the remains of the ship.