COTE D'EMERAUDE

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Built as a wooden hulled 3-mast barquentine rigged fishing ship by Chantier Naval de l’Quest, St Malo for M. Marie-Ange Glâtier, St Malo.
Launched as the CÔTE D’EMERAUDE. Named after a section of the French coast between Mont-St-Michel and Morlaix on the north coast of Brittany.
Tonnage 380 grt, 294 nt. dim. 42.55 x 9.70 x 4.40m.
She carried 14 dories.
Crew 38.
She was one of the last large fishing vessels built for the Grand Bank fisheries.
Built for the cod-fisheries in the Icelandic waters and Grand Banks off Newfoundland.
Could catch during the fishing season around 450 ton cod.
In 1941she left St Pierre et Miquelon with a cargo of salted codfish bound for Casablanca, after discharge of the cargo she got orders from the French Admiralty to proceed to Port Lyautey (Kenitra) for scrapping.
19 January 1941 she left Casablanca but she ran in a NW gale and she stranded in the mouth of the Sebou River, she was lost with the loss of 5 crew members.

France 1972 90c sg1967, scott1343
Source: Log Book.

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The stamp was designed by the French marine painter Roger Chapelet (1903 – 1995)