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LE MARQUIS TOURNAY

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In May, 2008, Odyssey Marine filed a complaint on two shipwrecks in the English Channel.
We have suggested that one of them may be the La Vierge du Bon Port

Scroll down to May 29th: http://www.merchantroyalshipwreck.com/2008/05/


Now Odyssey claims that one or the other may be the "Le Marquis Tournay".

http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/florida/flmdce/8:2008cv01044/214516/16/

Odyssey states that the ship "is believed to be LE MARQUIS TOURNAY, a vessel thought to be privately owned which likely sank in the late 18th century. This identification has not been confirmed, but is based on the general location of the shipwreck, characteristics of the wrecksite and certain artifacts recovered therefrom including a ship's bell."

The Discovery Channel, which has a new program about Odyssey Marine called "Treasure Quest", has a video clip of the recovery of a ship's bell (pictured above).

http://blogs.discovery.com/ocean_odyssey/2008/09/video-a-bell-co.html

Could this be the bell from Le Marquis Tournay? We'll find out in the upcoming episodes of "Treasure Quest", every Thursday at 10PM on the Discovery Channel.

There are 19 other clips from Treasure Quest here: (WARNING: you have to suffer through a commercial before each one) http://dsc.discovery.com/video/index.html?playerId=203711706&categoryId=3125043001&lineupId=7335084001&titleId=7271817001


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