Image: The engine of the “Big Engine Steamer” standing tall on the ocean floor about 100 miles southeast of the island last summer. Photo by Andrew Donn.
By Kaie Quigley, May 8, 2025
(May 6, 2025) Jennifer Sellitti and her team of hobbyist shipwreck hunters came up big last summer, finding the wreckage of an 1850s French passenger steamship, Le Lyonnais, 100 or so miles southeast of Nantucket in an area known as Georges Bank.
The story of their eight-year search for the vessel, which sank after colliding with an American sailing ship in 1856, the historical significance of the find and the tragic, compelling chain of events that unfolded during and after the crash, made a splash across the region.
A wrinkle in the story they left out at that time, however, is that Le Lyonnais wasn’t the only wreck they found on their expedition last August. They actually found three.
Read the full article on The Inquirer and Mirror:
https://www.ack.net/news/shipwreck-hunters-diving-on-two-more-sunken-vessels-this-summer/article_6c2810a3-7dd5-4f1d-8c63-2cbd3ee95184.html
