Le Lyonnais was about 79 meters in length and tasked with carrying passengers and cargo between New York and France
Discovery team member Joe Mazraani fans away the sand to reveal a deadeye used as part of the sail rigging on the passenger steamship Le Lyonnais, during a dive on the wreck, on Aug. 24, off the coast of Massachusetts .The French steamship Le Lyonnais, a marvel for its time, was feared lost forever when a maritime disaster in 1856 sent her to the bottom of the ocean off Massachusetts .
But disaster struck during the ship’s first return voyage back to the French city of Le Havre from the U.S. The ship collided with the Maine-built barque Adriatic, which was en route from Belfast, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia, according to Atlantic Wreck Salvage’s research, which Sellitti is using as the basis for a book on the ship called “The Adriatic Affair.”
The salvage crew was able to find Le Lyonnais by doing historical research and using sonar to narrow down the site of its final resting place. The ship is likely too deteriorated to be raised, Sellitti said.
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