Here is an update on the LaSalle Ship that is being excavated off the coast
of Texas as we speak redistributed with permission. It should be good
discussion material at the SHA meetings in Corpus Christi next month.
Mike Polk
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I just returned from a few days in the cofferdam.
The project is going great. Beautiful weather for
a change. Smithsonian Magazine was there and
plan to do a cover story on the project. National
Geographic also working on a major story for late
1997. French news media covering it as well.
Four compartments in the hull are stuffed with stuff.
600 feet of large anchor rope in bow. Skeleton on it
associated with leather shoes, ring, brandy cask,
pewter porringer with name scratched in, two combs
in leather case, wooden spoon. Box of trade beads
has 500,000 specimens. Two boxes of muskets, ten
per box. Box of trade goods has hundreds of rings,
dozens of wooden combs, thousands of brass pins,
lots of small mirrors, and hundreds of knife blades.
Jacketed and taken out intact. Several styles of wine
and condiment bottles. Leather shoes---the style was
narrow square toes and thick heels. Beautiful wooden
barrels of powder...it is like grey clay and stinks. One
barrell with ten or more gallons of pine pitch...really
stinks. Pewter dishes. Lots of wooden blocks and tackle.
Sailcloth everywhere. Two very heavy coils of brass
wire...probably hundreds of feet in each one. Cannon
balls. The list goes on and on. 800 people visit on
weekends, and lots during the week. Crew works
12 hour days, seven days a week (actually they get
two days off, staggered schedule. Hope to have contents
out by early January, if weather cooperates. Will take
another six weeks or more to bring up the hull. Hull is
very well preserved timbers and planking. More later.
CT
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