All but 16 of 132 people on board perished when Le Lyonnais sank in 1856 off Massachusetts. Now a New Jersey dive team has found the ship.

On Nov. 5, 1856, the French steamship Le Lyonnais was lost forever when a maritime disaster took place, sending the ship to the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Massachusetts. Decades later, a marine salvage crew found the wreck of Le Lyonnais about 200 miles off New Bedford,

On November 2, 1856, the passenger steamship Le Lyonnais was sailing off the coast of Massachusetts when it collided with a sailing vessel called the Adriatic. The Adriatic suffered minor damage and continued on.

The French passenger steamship Le Lyonnais, missing since 1856, has been located in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the Associated Press, the salvage firm Atlantic Wreck Salvage worked with the dive vessel D/V Tenacious to locate the ship roughly 200 miles off New Bedford,

A marine salvage firm has found the wreck of a long lost French steamship about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts.

A US dive team has discovered the wreck of a French steamship, Le Lyonnais, that sank in the Atlantic Ocean in 1856 after a collision with an American sailing vessel, claiming the lives of 114 passengers and crew.