Built as a hospital vessel for the French fishing fleet, mostly was she used with the French cod fishing fleet on the Grand banks off New Foundland.
Built by De La Brosse & Fouché, Nantes for Sociéte Des Oeuvres de Mer, Nantes.
Launched under the name SAINT FRANÇOIS D’ASSISE.
Tonnage 303 gross, dim. 45.6 x 8.45 x 4.5m.
Barkentine rigged, fitted out with a compound auxiliary steam engine 300hp.
Crew 28.
1901 Completed.
Her mission was to provide medical services to the sailors of the North Atlantic fishing fleet
During World War I requisitioned by French Government.
31 May 1917 sold (Lloyds gives 1919) to Caudal et Leray, Nantes, converted in a cargo vessel. Gross tonnage 407 ton.
07 October 1919 she sailed out as a cargo vessel to various French Ports until she was laid up at Pauillac on 04 October 1920.
1924 Sold to Rederi A/S Aage Lind, Copenhagen, renamed NYHOLM.
September 1926 sold to A/B Holms Skeppsvaerf, Råå, Sweden, subsequently scrapped or hulked.
St Pierre et Miquelon 1971 30f sg491, scott 408.
Source: Navicula. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1901. Watercraft Philately Volume 21 no 2 page 11.