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ILE ST. PAUL

Post by aukepalmhof » Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:13 pm

The name on the stamp gives ILE ST PAUL but the correct name is ILE SAINT PAUL as given in Lloyds Register.

Built as a cargo vessel under yard No 287 by A Vuijk & Zonen, Capelle a/d IJsel, Netherlands for A/S Fagersand (Alf. Monsen), Tønsberg, Norway.
Launched under the name FAGERSAND.
Tonnage 1,021 grt, 469 net, dim. 64.2 (lpp) x 9.81 x 5.15m.
One triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by G.T. Grey, South Shields, U.K., 121 nhp., one shaft, speed?
July 1906 completed.

She was used in the New York to Cuba and Venezuela service.

1918 Sold to A/S Fagersand, Skien, Norway, not renamed.
1920 Sold to E.B. Aaby, Christiania (Oslo), renamed DAGEID.
1928 Sold to M. Mazzella & Cie, Oran, Algeria, renamed MICHEL MAZZELLA.
1929 Sold to Union d’Entreprises Marocaines, Casablanca, not renamed.
1930 Renamed by owners in CAID MIMA with homeport Kenitra, Morocco.
1931 Sold to Société La Langouste Françaises (mgrs. Lailré), Havre, France and renamed ILE SAINT PAUL.
1928 A French company was founded to commence crayfish fishing around St Paul in the Antarctic and a canning plant was built there, most probably the ILE SAINT PAUL was bought for this enterprise.
But the enterprise ended in disaster in 1931when an epidemic of beriberi struck the workers who killed tens of men from French and almost all the 90 workers from Madagascar. The disasters is know in French as the Oubliés de Saint-Paul.

1935 Dismantled at St Denis, Réunion, and the hull was scuttled there in the 4th quarter of 1935.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories 2010 1.35 Euro, sg?, scott?

Source: Register of Merchant Ships Completed in 1906.
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