Volunteers work with museum staff to get the triple-expansion steam engine aboard the world's only above-water whaleback working again.
Le Lyonnais was making its first trip from America to Europe in 1856 when it collided with another ship and sank.
Le Lyonnais was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean about 140 miles east of Nantucket, Mass. More than 100 died after the French ...
A marine salvage firm has found the wreck of a long lost French steamship about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts ...
All but 16 of 132 people on board perished when Le Lyonnais sank in 1856 off Massachusetts. Now a New Jersey dive team has ...
A French ship that sunk in 1856 was recently discovered off the coast of Massachusetts.
On Nov. 5, 1856, the French steamship Le Lyonnais was lost forever when a maritime disaster took place, sending the ship to ...
The ship had sails, but was also outfitted with a horizontal steam engine and an iron hull, making her an example of the way innovation was changing shipping in the mid-19th century.But disaster ...
"Le Lyonnais" descended into the depths off the coast of Massachusetts after colliding with the "Adriatic," a sailing vessel that left the floundering steamship to fend for itself ...