Texas restores 330-year-old French ship that brought settlers to doomed colony
by Alan Yuhas from on (#1HWZ5)
Restoration of the La Belle, which left France on the orders of King Louis XIV in 1684 to establish a new colony, took 17 years after worms damaged the ship
Archaeologists have restored the remains of a 330-year-old frigate that carried hundreds of French settlers on a doomed journey to the coast of Texas, where they set up an ill-fated colony that led to a grim end for a famous explorer.
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