Built as a gaff-rigged French pilot cutter on the yard of Albert Paumelle in Le Havre, she was designed by Alexandre Paris.
Displacement 55 tons, dim. 17.10 x 4.60 x 3.10m. (draught).
Wooden oak hull.
1913 Completed under the name JOLIE BRISE the name is the French term for a moderate breeze.
Used as a pilot cutter till World War I.
1917 Bought by interests in Concarneau, France where after she was used in the tuna fisheries in the Gulf of Biscay for three years.
Thereafter laid up.
1923 The derelict hull was bought by Commander Evelyn George Martin, and he converted her into a pleasure craft.
August 1925 she won the first Fastnet Race in a time of 6 days, 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Thereafter she sailed across the North Atlantic to Newport Rhode Island to participate in the Bermuda Race, she was 5th in this race, and won the Blue Water medal.
After her return in England she took part in the second Fastnet Race, this time she was third.
1927 She was sold to Captain Warren Ferrier and his partner Smith, an engine was fitted in and an additional
Cabin on the Morgan Giles yard at Teignmouth.
1927 Used in the Fastnet race but retired after reaching the Lizard
1928 Bought by Robert Somerset and he used her in the Fastnet, Bermuda and Santander races.
1929 Was she again winner of the Fastnet Race and winner of the Queen of Spain’s Cup.
1930 Winner of the Fastnet Race.
1932 Sold to Lt. John Gage, he was for a short time her owner where after she in 1934 was bought by the American Stanley Mortimer.
Alternations were made mostly on the living quarters on a yard in Palma de Majorca and a new Gardner diesel engine was fitted in at Marseille.
When war was coming she sailed from the Mediterranean to Southampton and was put up for sale.
1938 Bought by W.Stannard.
Requisitioned by the Royal Navy, but not used, she was laid up at a mud berth at Shoreham during the war.
1945 Bought by a consortium led by me and J Worsdell, renamed in PLEASANT BREEZE.
A voyage to New Zealand was aborted and when she put into Lisbon in 1946 she was acquired by L.Lobato and partners.
Repaired and refitted renamed again in JOLIE BRISE.
The next thirty years was her homeport Lisbon, but when the political situation changed in Portugal she returned to the Solent.
1977 Bought by the International Sailing Craft Association in association with Dauntsey’s School Sailing Club and the Science Museum.
1980, 1986 Winner Tall Ships Race.
1993 After a refit she took part in the Fastnet Race.
1994 She circumnavigated the United Kingdom.
1999 Second place in the Tall Ships Race.
2000 and 2002 overall winner of the Tall Ships 2000 Transatlantic Races.
2005 Took part in the Trafalgar 200 celebration.
2008 First in her class and Fleet in Tall Ships Race Liverpool to Maloy, Norway.
2009 Participant in the Tall Ship Atlantic Challenge.
2019 active.
Bermuda 2009 85c sg?, scott?
Niger 2016 750F sg?, scott?
Source: Various web-sites.