CRL Projects

In 2002, an oilfield inspection crew working for OGGC discovered a shipwreck off the coast of Louisiana at a depth of about 4000 feet below the surface. In 2007, funded by OGGC under an agreement with MMS, Texas A&M University…

Westfield was a Staten Island ferryboat that was purchased by the Navy and converted into an ironclad. Under the command of Commander William B. Renshaw, Westfield supported Commander Portar’s Mortar Flotilla in the lower Mississippi River before taking up the…

Castillo de San Marcos is a 17th-century Spanish masonry fort located in St. Augustine, Florida; Fort Matanzas is a solid coquina (shellstone) fortification built just south of St. Augustine. They were built while Florida was still under Spanish rule as…

In the mid-eighteenth century, a Spanish mission was built on the San Antonio River in Texas. A century later, colonists from the United States and Tejanos rebelled against the Mexican government. The rebels captured the Alamo in December 1835 and…

La Belle was one of four ships that set sail from France in 1684 with the mission to establish a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi River, under the direction of Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle . Miscalculation…

CSS Georgia was a Confederate ironclad built in Savannah, Georgia with the funds raised by the Ladies' Gunboat Association. Georgia was intended to protect the port, but the steam engines lacked the power for offensive use, and so was anchored…