L'AMORICAIN three mast schooner built in 1920
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:00 am
Built as a three mast wooden schooner by C,Lebogien, La Richardais for Fromal R & J & Cie. Saint Malo, France.
Launched as the ARMORICAIN.
Tonnage 371 grt, dim. 29.4 x 13.1m.
1920 completed.
Lloyds registry 1949-1950 gives two 1 cyl- oil engines S.C.SA., twin screws.
08/18/1951: Armoricain lost.
09/02/2012 by Jean-Louis Desdouets
The Armoricain was a French three-masted schooner, registered in Saint-Malo. In 1940 she was fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland. At the time of the armistice of June 18, 1940, she was part of the large flotilla of French cod fishing boats that came to take shelter in the port of Saint-Pierre. After the hostilities she was purchased by the Administrative Fleet of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands. Her rigging was extensively modified and two diesel engines now provided her propulsion. For several years under the command of Captains Flahaut and Rebmann, she provided service between the ports of the East Coast of Canada and the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands.
In 1951, it was sold to a Canadian shipping company in the port of Halifax. On August 18, while it was between Langlade Island and Saint-Pierre, a major leak occurred. The water entered so quickly that it forced the captain to give the order to evacuate the ship. The boat sank in the middle of the "Bay" at Anse a Pierre.
https://www.saintpierreetmiquelon.net/c ... ge/page/4/
About the loss is given by Ship Wreck at St. Pierre by J. P. Andrieux
On 18 August 1951 a Nova Scotian three master, the ARMORICAIN sank in the waters of ‘The Bay’, that stretch of waters separating St Pierre from Langlade.
Originally a fishing schooner from St Malo in France, she was fishing on the Grand Banks when World War II was declared and she had remained stranded at St Pierre for a lengthy period with the rest of the French fishing fleet. After the hostilities ended she was sold to the French Government and converted from a fishing schooner to a coaster. Two new diesel engines were added.
Thereafter the ARMORICAIN made regular trips between St Pierre and eastern Canadian ports. In the late 1940s sh was sold to Marcus Brothers of Halifax, and put under St Johns, Newfoundland registry
Around the middle of August 1951 she had loaded 550 tons of coal at Sydney, Nova Scotia, and headed for Bay Roberts, Newfoundland under command of Captain Thomas Evans. Her second engineer at that time of her loss gave as his opinion that one of the planks on the hull of the wooden vessel must have come off during the voyage as the vessel began taken water rapidly. At the time the ship was 12-15 miles from St Pierre. The two main pumps weren't able to cope with the water flooding the ship and the captain soon realized that he had no hope of making St Pierre harbour. Bringing his ship as close to shore as possible, by Cape Coupe, he anchored the vessel so that she wouldn’t drift and become a navigational hazard if she sank in shallow water. An SOS was sent out and the eight men crew crew prepared a lifeboat for their escape.
The first vessel to render assistance was the DAPHNE and PHILLIS owned by H.B. dawe of Cupida, Newfoundland, her master Captain Johnnie Builen, picked up the survivors.
Other vessels that had answered the distress call witnessed the sinking. The AMORICAIN’s crew were brought to St Pierre and soon afterwards returned to Nova Scotia.
St Pierre et Miquelon 2025 0.75 Euro sg?, Scott?
Launched as the ARMORICAIN.
Tonnage 371 grt, dim. 29.4 x 13.1m.
1920 completed.
Lloyds registry 1949-1950 gives two 1 cyl- oil engines S.C.SA., twin screws.
08/18/1951: Armoricain lost.
09/02/2012 by Jean-Louis Desdouets
The Armoricain was a French three-masted schooner, registered in Saint-Malo. In 1940 she was fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland. At the time of the armistice of June 18, 1940, she was part of the large flotilla of French cod fishing boats that came to take shelter in the port of Saint-Pierre. After the hostilities she was purchased by the Administrative Fleet of the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands. Her rigging was extensively modified and two diesel engines now provided her propulsion. For several years under the command of Captains Flahaut and Rebmann, she provided service between the ports of the East Coast of Canada and the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands.
In 1951, it was sold to a Canadian shipping company in the port of Halifax. On August 18, while it was between Langlade Island and Saint-Pierre, a major leak occurred. The water entered so quickly that it forced the captain to give the order to evacuate the ship. The boat sank in the middle of the "Bay" at Anse a Pierre.
https://www.saintpierreetmiquelon.net/c ... ge/page/4/
About the loss is given by Ship Wreck at St. Pierre by J. P. Andrieux
On 18 August 1951 a Nova Scotian three master, the ARMORICAIN sank in the waters of ‘The Bay’, that stretch of waters separating St Pierre from Langlade.
Originally a fishing schooner from St Malo in France, she was fishing on the Grand Banks when World War II was declared and she had remained stranded at St Pierre for a lengthy period with the rest of the French fishing fleet. After the hostilities ended she was sold to the French Government and converted from a fishing schooner to a coaster. Two new diesel engines were added.
Thereafter the ARMORICAIN made regular trips between St Pierre and eastern Canadian ports. In the late 1940s sh was sold to Marcus Brothers of Halifax, and put under St Johns, Newfoundland registry
Around the middle of August 1951 she had loaded 550 tons of coal at Sydney, Nova Scotia, and headed for Bay Roberts, Newfoundland under command of Captain Thomas Evans. Her second engineer at that time of her loss gave as his opinion that one of the planks on the hull of the wooden vessel must have come off during the voyage as the vessel began taken water rapidly. At the time the ship was 12-15 miles from St Pierre. The two main pumps weren't able to cope with the water flooding the ship and the captain soon realized that he had no hope of making St Pierre harbour. Bringing his ship as close to shore as possible, by Cape Coupe, he anchored the vessel so that she wouldn’t drift and become a navigational hazard if she sank in shallow water. An SOS was sent out and the eight men crew crew prepared a lifeboat for their escape.
The first vessel to render assistance was the DAPHNE and PHILLIS owned by H.B. dawe of Cupida, Newfoundland, her master Captain Johnnie Builen, picked up the survivors.
Other vessels that had answered the distress call witnessed the sinking. The AMORICAIN’s crew were brought to St Pierre and soon afterwards returned to Nova Scotia.
St Pierre et Miquelon 2025 0.75 Euro sg?, Scott?