{"id":22075,"date":"2015-01-21T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2015-01-21T19:50:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T19:50:03","slug":"divers-think-theyve-found-the-holy-grail-of-great-lakes-shipwrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/2015\/01\/divers-think-theyve-found-the-holy-grail-of-great-lakes-shipwrecks\/","title":{"rendered":"Divers Think They\u2019ve Found the \u2018Holy Grail of Great Lakes Shipwrecks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"wreck\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck-620x465.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck-940x705.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wreck.jpeg 1484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In mid-1679, out there somewhere in the waters of Lake Michigan, the first full-sized sailing ship to ever hit the waters of the\u00a0Great Lakes vanished, taking with it every soul on board. The commander of the vessel \u2014 which had a carved griffin at its bow and was named the Griffin \u2014 was a Frenchman named Robert La Salle. He had wanted to take his\u00a040-foot vessel from Green Bay to Niagara,\u00a0so on September 18 of that year, he and a crew of six men fired a single cannon shot and set sail. It was\u00a0\u201cwith a light and very favorable wind from the West,\u201d a historical account\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2e6d9d;\" href=\"http:\/\/greatlakesexploration.org\/expedition.htm\">says<\/a>. \u201cIt has not been possible to ascertain since what course they steered.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2015\/01\/16\/these-divers-think-theyve-found-the-holy-grail-of-great-lakes-shipwrecks\/?tid=hp_mm&amp;hpid=z3\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In mid-1679, out there somewhere in the waters of Lake Michigan, the first full-sized sailing ship to ever hit the waters of the\u00a0Great Lakes vanished, taking with it every soul on board. The commander of the vessel \u2014 which had a carved griffin at its bow and was named the Griffin \u2014 was a Frenchman named Robert La Salle. He had wanted to take his\u00a040-foot vessel from Green Bay to Niagara,\u00a0so on September 18 of that year, he and a crew of six men fired a single cannon shot and set sail. It was\u00a0\u201cwith a light and very favorable wind from the West,\u201d a historical account\u00a0says. \u201cIt has not been possible to ascertain since what course they steered.\u201d Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[345,327],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22077,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}