SAINT DENNIS and SAINT PIERRE trawlers.
Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:06 pm
Both stern trawlers seen on this stamp were built by Societe Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, Le Havre, France for Societe Saint-Pierraese de Peche, Saint Pierre et Miquelon.
The two red-hulled sisterships are seen bows on moored alongside each other to a bollard, with the SAINT DENNIS on the left of the stamp.
SAINT PIERRE built under yard No 275, and SAINT DENIS under yard No 276., it are sisterships.
Details are the same for both trawlers.
Tonnage 1.295 gross, 744 dwt., dim. 49.9 x 13.3m. Length bpp. 43.5m.
Powered by one Caterpillar engine, 1.500hp, speed 13.5 knots.
Crew 30.
The SAINT PIERRE is fitted out with a freezing plant for up to 30 tons of fish a day, while the SAINT DENNIS was used for fresh fish only.
Both vessels were completed in March 1989.
SAINT DENIS was lengthened in 1995, tonnage increased to 2.015 gross, length 70.0m. Most probably also refitted in a freezing trawler.
2001 Renamed in ROBERT M. LEE and owned by Nova Seafish Limited, Falkland Islands.
2006 Both vessels still in service as a fishing vessel. SAINT PIERRE IMO No. 8717453. ROBERT M. LEE IMO No. 8717465.
She is identified on the 2008 issues of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 60p scott 364 as the ROBERT M. LEE.
On St Pierre et Miquelon 1990 sg 650
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Watercraft Philately 1991/48
The two red-hulled sisterships are seen bows on moored alongside each other to a bollard, with the SAINT DENNIS on the left of the stamp.
SAINT PIERRE built under yard No 275, and SAINT DENIS under yard No 276., it are sisterships.
Details are the same for both trawlers.
Tonnage 1.295 gross, 744 dwt., dim. 49.9 x 13.3m. Length bpp. 43.5m.
Powered by one Caterpillar engine, 1.500hp, speed 13.5 knots.
Crew 30.
The SAINT PIERRE is fitted out with a freezing plant for up to 30 tons of fish a day, while the SAINT DENNIS was used for fresh fish only.
Both vessels were completed in March 1989.
SAINT DENIS was lengthened in 1995, tonnage increased to 2.015 gross, length 70.0m. Most probably also refitted in a freezing trawler.
2001 Renamed in ROBERT M. LEE and owned by Nova Seafish Limited, Falkland Islands.
2006 Both vessels still in service as a fishing vessel. SAINT PIERRE IMO No. 8717453. ROBERT M. LEE IMO No. 8717465.
She is identified on the 2008 issues of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 60p scott 364 as the ROBERT M. LEE.
On St Pierre et Miquelon 1990 sg 650
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Watercraft Philately 1991/48