The ships initially explored had six cannons and may have had two masts. They were copper-clad, 84-feet long with a 26-foot beam.
The survey was done because in 2011, Shell Oil notified the Interior Department that they were going to drill in the area.
OTHER HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS FOUND IN THE AREA
In 1995, after a ten year search, archaeologists of the Texas Historic Commission found one of French explorer LaSalle's vessels in a coastal bay between Galveston and Corpus Christi. The LaBelle sank in a storm in 1686.
--Cooter
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