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La Belle was wrecked in present-day Matagorda Bay the following year, dooming La Salle's Texas colony to failure. The wreckage of La Belle lay forgotten until it was discovered by a team of state archaeologists in 1995. The discovery of La Salle's flagship was regarded as one of the most important archaeological finds of the century in Texas ...
Wear. ( United Kingdom) Guernsey. The British steel cargo ship WEAR, built in 1905 by Austin S. P. & Son Ltd. and owned at the time of her loss by Witherington & Everett SS Co., on voyage from Sunderland to Saint-Servan with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on 15 May 1910 on the west coast of Guernsey Channel Islands.
Pages in category "Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico". The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. USS Accokeek. Albatross (1920 schooner) SS Alcoa Puritan (1941) USS Annie. Texan sloop-of-war Austin.
Through an international treaty, the artifacts excavated from La Belle are owned by France [46] and held in trust by the Texas Historical Commission. The collection is held by the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. Artifacts from La Belle are shown at nine museums across Texas. The wreckage of his ship L'Aimable has yet to be located ...
A British cargo ship torpedoed and sunk by U-67 off the coast of Apalachicola [citation needed] 29°29′N 85°17′W / 29.483°N 85.283°W / 29.483; -85.283 (Empire Mica) HMS Fox (1799) Royal Navy. 1799. A 14 gun schooner that was sunk off Dog Island. [citation needed] Grace Andrews.
v. t. e. The French colonization of Texas started when Robert Cavelier de La Salle intended to found the colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, but inaccurate maps and navigational errors caused his ships to anchor instead 400 miles (640 km) to the west, off the coast of Texas. The colony survived until 1688.
Expedition to shipwreck in Tallinn Bay. The archaeology of shipwrecks is the field of archaeology specialized most commonly in the study and exploration of shipwrecks. [1] Its techniques combine those of archaeology with those of diving to become Underwater archaeology. However, shipwrecks are discovered on what have become terrestrial sites.
The wreck was discovered in 2021, but the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society spends time researching found vessels before going public with information about its discoveries.