SAINT PIERRE cutter

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SAINT PIERRE cutter

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Nov 13, 2017 8:17 pm

The French priest Paul Maze (1885-1975) the future bishop of Tahiti was appointed to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia around 1918 where he was based at the Hikueru Atoll first with Father Amédée Nouailles but when Nouailles after two years was called back to Tahiti, was he alone in charge of the Tuamotu Archipelago.
To visit all the atolls he used mostly trading sailing schooners till Mr. Doudoute built him a small cutter which was christened the SAINT-PIERRE.

He became bishop of Tahiti in 1938.

The stamp shows him and the cutter with in the background a map of the Tuamotu Islands. More details on the cutter is welcome.

Source Internet and Watercraft Philately 1989 page 12.
French Polynesia 1987 115 Fr, sg 523, scott?
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1987 SAINT=PIERRE.jpg

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