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Matagorda Bay (Tex.) --- Gulf Coast (Tex.) --- Mexico, Gulf of --- Navigation.

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fter two decades of searching for La Salle's lost ship La Belle, Texas Historical Commission (THC) divers in 1995 located a shipwreck containing historic artifacts of European origin in the silty bottom of Matagorda Bay, off the coast of Texas. The first cannon lifted from the waters bore late seventeenth-century French insignias. The ill-fated La Belle had been found.Under the direction of then-THC Archeology Division Director James Bruseth, the THC conducted a full excavation of the water-logged La Belle. The conservation was subsequently completed at Texa

Underwater archaeology --- Shipwrecks --- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, --- La Belle (Frigate) --- Matagorda Bay (Tex.) --- Antiquities

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Ethnology --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Shipwrecks --- Study and teaching. --- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, --- La Belle (Frigate) --- America --- Matagorda Bay (Tex.) --- Texas --- Colonization --- Discovery and exploration --- French --- Antiquities --- History

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The complete technical and scientific report on one of the most important shipwrecks in North American history . . . In 1995, Texas Historical Commission underwater archaeologists discovered the wreck of the La Salle's La Belle, remnant of an ill-fated French attempt to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River but landing instead along today's Matagorda Bay in Texas. For the next two years, the Commission uncovered the ship's remains under the direction of archaeologist James E. Bruseth and employing a team of archaeologists and volunteers. Amid the shallow waters of Matagorda Bay, a steel cofferdam was constructed around the site, creating one of the most complex nautical archaeological excavations ever attempted in North America and allowing the archaeologists to excavate the sunken wreck much as if it were located on dry land. The ship's hold was discovered full of everything the would-be colonists would need to establish themselves in the New World; more than 1.6 million artifacts were recovered from the site. More than two decades in the making due to the immensity of the find and the complexity of cataloging and conserving the artifacts, this book thoroughly documents one of the most significant North American archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Underwater archaeology --- Shipwrecks --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists --- Marine disasters --- Wrecks --- Adventure and adventurers --- Marine accidents --- Voyages and travels --- Collisions at sea --- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, --- Cavalier, René Robert, --- Cavelier de La Salle, Robert, --- Cavelier, René Robert, --- Cavelier, Robert, --- De La Salle, Robert Cavelier, --- La Sale, --- La Salle, René Robert Cavelier, --- La Salle, --- LaSalle, Robert Cavelier, --- Salle, Robert Cavelier, --- La Belle (Frigate) --- Belle (Frigate) --- Texas --- Matagorda Bay (Tex.) --- Teksas --- Tekhas --- Tejas --- Texas (Republic) --- Texas (Province) --- Republic of Texas --- State of Texas --- تكساس --- Tiksās --- ولاية تكساس --- Wilāyat Tiksās --- Штат Тэхас --- Shtat Tėkhas --- Тэхас --- Тексас --- Техас --- Akałii Bikéyah --- Téʼsiz Hahoodzo --- Τέξας --- Πολιτεία του Τέξας --- Politeia tou Texas --- Estado de Texas --- Teksaso --- Tet-khiet-sat-sṳ̂ --- Teeksăs --- 텍사스 주 --- T'eksasŭ-ju --- 텍사스주 --- T'eksasŭju --- 텍사스 --- T'eksasŭ --- Kekeka --- Taaksaas --- טקסס --- מדינת טקסס --- Medinat Ṭeḳsas --- Texia --- Civitas Texiae --- Teksasa --- Teksasas --- テキサス州 --- Tekisasu-shū --- Tekisasushū --- テキサス --- Tekisasu --- Texas suyu --- Teksas Eyaleti --- טעקסעס --- Ṭeḳses --- Teksasos --- 得克萨斯州 --- Dekesasi zhou --- 得克萨斯 --- Dekesasi --- TX --- Tex. --- Coahuila and Texas (Mexico) --- Texas (Provisional government, 1835) --- Discovery and exploration --- French. --- Antiquities.