DURANCE transport aviso

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DURANCE transport aviso

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Mar 06, 2015 6:59 pm

The stamp was designed to honour the naval doctor, writer and poet Victor Segalen born in Brest on 4 January 1878 and died in Huelgoat in 1919. The vessel on the stamp is the DURANCE. On the background of the stamp is a map of China, Segalen after leaving the DURANCE learned the Chinese language and made a long trip to China.
The wooden hulled transport-aviso was built on the Arsenal Rochefort for the French Navy.
01 March 1882 keel laid down.
10 January 1887 launched as the DURANCE the fifth ship under that name in the French Navy.
Displacement 1,597 ton, dim. 66.80 x 10.50 x 4.80m.
One steam engine 175 nhp, one propeller, speed 11 knots.
Barque rigged, sail area 1224 m².
Armament 4 – 140mm, 1 – 65mm, 4 – 37mm guns.
Crew 8 officers and 111 men.
16 May 1890 commissioned.
First used in the Atlantic till 13 December 1890.
1891 Assigned to the Tahiti station. She carried cargo and passengers, one of the passengers for a voyage on board was the famous painter Gauguin.
Victor Segalen joined the DURANCE in Tahiti as a young ships doctor, traveling from France via New York and San Francisco to Tahiti.
17 October 1895 the DURANCE arrived in Cherbourg.
1897 The DURANCE joined the Senegal station.
From 20 April 1899 to October 1900 decommissioned in Rochefort.
Then she was a unit of the Pacific Naval division.
04 December 1905 in Toulon, disarmed and used as a floating barrack by the 1st Submarine Flotilla in Toulon. Segalen left in 1905 the vessel there and became a doctor in the Brest Naval Hospital.
30 December 1910 sold for demolition and broken up in Toulon.

France 1979 1f50 sg2303, scott1634.
Source Log Book. http://maitres-du-vent.blogspot.co.nz/2 ... galen.html
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