DIANA 1721

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For the 300th Anniversary of the discovery of Tromelin Island, Taaf issued a miniature sheet that shows the French ship DIANA on the stamp and in the margin of the sheet, She was under command of the French Captain Jean Marie Briand de la Feuillée when she discovered the Tromelin Island, and he named the island “Ile des Sables” (Isle of Sand).

In 1739, Sable Island first appeared on a nautical chart. This is the "Reduced map of the Eastern Ocean or Indian Sea drawn up at the Depot of Maps, Plans, and Journals of the Navy. The island appears there with the mention: "Islot de Sable seen by Diane 1723."
Contrary to what the map indicates, it was in 1722 that the island was discovered by the DIANA, a vessel of the French East India Company commanded by Captain Jean Marie Briand de la Feuillée.
The pilot logbook gives on that day.: On the 11th at 5¼ o'clock in the afternoon, saw an islet of sand whose middle remained at NNE 2 L. to 2 L. ½.

(French Antarctic (TAAF) carried now out sovereignty, scientific research support, biodiversity preservation, and logistics missions in Tromelin Island.)

Of the DANA is known that she was built in England in 1721, (where and owner not given). Most probably for the French East India Company. Tonnage 330 tons. She made various slave voyages.
DIANA her first voyage was from Lorient on 30 May 1721in company with the ATLANTA which was under command of Jacques La Salle bound for Calicut, she returned to Lorient on 19 April 1724.
On her second voyage under command of Captain Terrien, she left Lorient on 28 October 1724 for a trading voyage to Angola, then Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, returning to Lorient on 26 June 1726.
Third trading voyage; sailed from Lorient on 27 October 1727, under command of captain Jacques Le Neuf de Tournevillet, bound for Quidahgo, Angola. Then she sailed for Louisiana most probably with slaves, and from Louisiana, she sailed back to Lorient.
The fourth voyage sailed from Lorient on 15 October 1729 under command of Captain Jacques Tortel, traded 304 slaves at Gorée in Senegal from there she sailed to the Isle of France, before returning to Lorient, where she arrived on 25 May 1731.
Fifth voyage: sailing from Lorient on 06 March 1731 under the command of Hyacinthe Lhermitte for the Indian Ocean. She will remain there, used for trade voyages to Mozambique. She made also a voyage to Antongil, Madagascar in 1732, on which she had a slave revolt on board.
December 1736 she was condemned in Ile de France.

Sable Island was later renamed Tromelin Island after Captain Jacques-Marie Boudin de Tromelin who visited the island on board the La DAUPHINE in 1776, to rescue the survivors of the L’UTILE.

1825 The name Tromelin appears on British sea charts.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories 2022 2.20 Euro sgms?, Scott?
https://books.openedition.org/editionsc ... 47?lang=fr Info received from Jean Louis Araignon.