The dive team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage, however, located the vessel farther out to sea, on the Georges Bank, 200 miles from New Bedford, Massachusetts.

A team of divers from Atlantic Wreck Salvage, a salvage firm based in New Jersey, found the remains of the Le Lyonnais after a two-decades-long search. Le Lyonnais was built in 1855.

The discovery of the steamship follows years of work to locate it and also represents a new beginning, a spokesperson for Atlantic Wreck Salvage said.

New Jersey marine salvage firm Atlantic Wreck Salvage found the wreck of Le Lyonnais about 200 miles off New Bedford, Massachusetts, in late August.

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

The wreck of a passenger steamship that sank in 1856 in the Atlantic Ocean has been discovered about 200 miles off the coast of Massachusetts, a New Jersey-based salvage group said.

Atlantic Wreck Salvage, which owns and operates the dive boat D/V Tenacious out of Point Pleasant Beach, located the wreck of the steam ship about 200 miles east of New Bedford, Massachusetts, on ...

Jennifer Sellitti of Atlantic Wreck Salvage, a New Jersey-based company, said a team on the dive boat D/V Tenacious discovered the wreckage of Le Lyonnais last month after a two-decade search.