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Etoile of France

Post by Anatol » Thu Sep 21, 2017 8:47 am

The Étoile de France is a schooner with a wooden hulk and a wooden hull built in 1938 as a Baltic Trader cargo ship.He is the flagship of Marine Star Cruises boats from Bob Escoffier as the Polar Star ketch and the Star Molene dundee.Its former registration was D 43169. The news is SM D43169 (Saint-Malo).At its construction in 1938, it was launched under the name of Jutlandia. It was a three-masted coaster-schooner with the auxiliary engine used for cabotage in the Baltic Sea. It was used to transport salt and cod between Iceland, Denmark and Portugal.In 1955, it passes under the Danish flag and takes the name of Frennenæs. His rigging is reduced to two-masted schooner.In 1963, under the Danish flag, the schooner took the name Jette Jan.In 1971, it was converted into three-masted schooner to become a school ship.In 1983, it was again transformed into a two-masted schooner by taking the name of Julia af Fåborg.Mickael Turk became the owner and used it for the cinema.In 2007 Bob Escoffier bought it and renamed it Étoile de France. It is used mainly as a sailing boat. It allows day trips and cruises in the Channel, Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean 1.She was present at the 2013 Armada in Rouen, the Boulogne - sur - Mer Sea Festival in July 2013 and in Brest 2016.
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