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Antoinette

Post by shipstamps » Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:48 pm


The French marine artist, Roger Chapelet, has had a number of his paintings featured on his country's stamps, the latest recently issued being the Cape Horner Antoinette
According to Lloyd's Register, the Antoinette was a 4-masted barque, built in 1897 by Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranee, at La Seyne, for A. D. Bordes and Sons, of Dunkirk. The vessel's gross tonnage was 2,898, net 2,612 tons, her length being 322 ft. 2 in., beam 45 ft. 7 in. and depth 25 ft. 4 in. She was launched in February 1897, and was engaged in the nitrate trade between France and the West Coast of South America. She was lost in 1918.
The Antoinette was one of 13 vessels known as "Bordes' Bounty ships", their dimensions being identical, although there were slight variations in their tonnage. The French Government, before the end of the 19th century, brought into being navigation bounties and these amounted to 1 franc 70 cents per gross ton per 1,000 miles. The intention of the act was to encourage the building of a large French merchant fleet.
When A. D. Bordes ordered 13 vessels, there was strong feeling in French maritime circles that out of the 10,500,000 francs allotted by the French Government, Bordes and Sons had received nearly two-fifths of it. Bordes however claimed that they had only received one-sixth, but the nickname stuck just the same. The stamp is a very fine example of engraving by Durrens. The Antoinette is mentioned in "The Nitrate Clippers" by Basil Lubbock.
Sea Breezes July 1971.
France SG1920

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Re: Antoinette

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:09 pm

20 October 1896 launched as ANTOINETTE.

Special built for the nitrate trade between Chile and Europe around Cape Horn.
She made altogether eight voyages between Europe and Chile, her best outward and homeward passages been 72 days each.
Under command of Captain P. Lechevanton during World War I, was she attacked by a U-boat in October 1917, she succeeded by beating off the U-boat and escaped.
21 December 1919 on a voyage from Iquique to New York loaded with nitrate via the Panama Canal she ran on Serrana Rocks off the coast of Nicaragua and was lost.

Source: The Bounty Ships of France by Alan Villiers and Henry Picard.
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