Le Griffon
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Le Griffon was a sailing vessel built by French explorer and fur trader René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in the Niagara area of Canada in 1679.
Le Griffon was constructed and launched at or near Cayuga Island on the Niagara River and was... Wikipedia
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Le Griffon was a sailing vessel built by French explorer and fur trader René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in the Niagara area of Canada in 1679.
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Conjectural model of Le Griffon. Built in 1679 for Sieur de La Salle on the Niagara River and ultimately made it to Lake Michigan.
Nov 25, 2022 · Le Griffon was the first ship to sail the Great Lakes below Niagara Falls. It was built between January and June 1679.
Le Griffon was the first full-sized sailing ship on the upper Great Lakes of North America and she led the way to modern commercial shipping in that part of the ...
Jun 12, 2021 · Le Griffon mysteriously went missing in 1679 and no one knows what happened between the time it was last seen until it was discovered three ...
The birthplace of Le Griffon made headlines years before the shipwreck did. Historians have used Hennipen's 1697 woodcut to try and figure out the exact place ...
May 12, 2022 · La Salle named the ship Le Griffon, after the mythical creature whose body of a lion has the head and wings of an eagle. The name honored Count ...
The Griffon disappeared en route to Lake Erie and was likely overcome in a September storm in northern Lake Michigan and became one of the Great Lakes earliest ...
Jan 3, 2023 · In September 1679, the French ship Le Griffon vanished without a trace in the Great Lakes region of the USA. The ship, owned by fur trader ...
Le Griffon was a 17th-century, 45-ton, five-gun "barque" built by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, at Fort Frontenac, Kingston.