YVES DE KERGUELEN 1877 sailing vessel.

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Built as a three-masted composite square rigged steam yacht in 1877 by J.Samuel White at Cowes, U.K. for Lord Ashburton.
Launched under the name SUNRISE.
Tonnage, 209 gross tons, dim. 133.8 x 24.3 x 13.3ft. (draught).
Auxiliary compound steam engine hp?, manufactured by John Perm at Greenwich.

1896 Sold to E.J.Coope, England a wealthy family of brewers.
1897 A new boiler fitted in.
1904 Sold to C.H.L.Cazelet, England.
1905 Sold to Mr. A. Reynall-Pack, in 1906 was she rerigged in a two masted schooner by J.S.White at Cowes, a photo in the book Steam Yachts showed her also with two masts, but on the TAAF stamp is she again depict as a 3 mast vessel, square on the foremast, again rerigged or the design of the stamp is from a earlier period of the vessel.
1912 Sold to the brothers Bossieres for the “Compagnie Generale des iles Kerguelen, Saint Paul et Amsterdam, renamed YVES DE KERGUELEN.

12 December 1912 she sailed from Le Havre, with on board 15 crew, arrived at Cape Town 14 March 1913. Sailed 12 April from Cape Town, and arrived at Port Couvreux at the end of April 1913.
Captain Allaire carried out a coastal survey and waited with a load of 1.600 sheep for the arrival at Kerguelen of the ship JACQUES.
After three months he was fed up, and left 31 July for South Africa, against instructions which confused Bossiere’s plans.
23 September arrived at Cape Town.
The YVES DE KERGUELEN, having encountered severe storms during the two-months trip to the Cape, was severely damaged. The impossibility of repairing the vessel prompted the decision to sell the vessel on 11 December 1913.

Till so far not found her fate.

French Southern and Antarctic Territories 1996 2f80 sg349, scott214.

Source: Steam Yachts by David Couling. Watercraft Philately volume 43 page 62. http://www.chez.com/philateliemarine/ph ... TAAF_e.htm