La Belle', The Ship That Changed History

After 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."