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Griffin found in Lake Michigan?

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  • From: Michigan
Griffin found in Lake Michigan?
Posted by ps1scw on Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:28 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/16/divers-begin-lake-michigan-search-for-griffin-ship/?intcmp=obnetwork

 

In a remote part of northern Lake Michigan, divers have started looking at an underwater pit, hoping to find the resting place of the Griffin, a ship commanded by the 17th century French explorer La Salle.

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Posted by David_K on Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:03 PM

I saw that article, and got interested!  And then I thought it would be cool if someone could take an existing model kit, and modify it into a Griffin...but I guess there's not much documentation about the ship, so it might be hard to make an accurate depiction...cool story, anyway!  It'd be great if they pull up some good parts!

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Monday, June 17, 2013 8:34 AM

Unless this really is the Griffen, and it is in pretty good shape, if one makes an attempt at modeling the Griffin, it will be hard for anyone to prove you wrong!  One way is to take a published drawing or sketch of what some historian believes the ship looked like, and model it as that specific guess. I know I have seen author's sketches of what it may have looked like in several Great Lakes histories.

I actually have such a work under way myself, so I hope what they found is indeed the Griffin, and there is enough left that we may finally know what it looks like.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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