Built as a steel hulled barque rigged sailing vessel by Chantiere de La Loire, St Nazaire for Sté des Armateurs Nantais, Nantes, France.
Launched under the name CASSARD.
Tonnage 2.289 gross, 1.719 net, dim. 85.08 x 12.25 x 6.93m.
June 1899 delivered to owners.
July 1899 maiden voyage from Nantes to Swansea, U.K. in ballast to load (most probably a cargo of coal) and sailed from this port via Cape Horn to San Francisco, where she arrived 02 January 1900.
After discharging, she loaded grain for Europe, arrived Antwerp July 1900.
Amount of freights 174.527 Francs, not included the navigation bounty of 103.113 Francs.
Her next voyage from Antwerp to Astoria, Australia she made in 120 days, most probably in ballast.
She was lost on 20 May 1906 on a voyage from Sydney via Cape Horn to Falmouth for orders loaded with a cargo of wheat under command of Captain Lemoine.
After rounding Cape Horn, she encountered a strong east-north-easterly gale with foggy weather, and grounded on Bleaker Island, Falkland Islands.
Nobody on board was lost.
29 June 1906 the wreck was sold for £99.
On Falkland Islands 1989 10p sg 576
Source: The Australian Run by Loney & Stone. The Bounty Ships of France by Villiers & Picard.