If you gained a taste for Samuel de Champlain's work, you can read the complete book (in French) at Bibliothèque Nationale de France or see the main illustrations in detail at Canada's McGill ...

The contract was awarded by Rouen-based GIE Dragages-Ports with regard to its 117m, 8500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Samuel de Champlain, and the works will take place next year at Damen ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences tells the story of Samuel de Champlain, an important early French explorer, navigator, soldier, diplomat and founder of New France and the Quebec settlement.