Marity

The Marité is a three-masted ship Goélette. It was built in 1921 with Fécamp, in Seine-Maritime and is today last the ground-neuva in state.

Carrying the diminutive of Marie-Therese the One-eyed one, girl of the ship-owner and godmother of the boat, the Marité is launched on June 24th, 1923, in Fécamp. It has thirteen veils and 3 masts of a ton, surmounted by an arrow of eleven meters. After having practiced fishing with the Cod, he attends the benches of Newfoundland of 1924 to 1929.

He is then repurchased by a ship-owner Danish and gains in 1930 the port of Esbjerg where he is modified, with a reduced aerofoil and an auxiliary engine. Until about 1935, it practices great fishing graft water of Iceland and the Greenland. It practices then the coastal traffic between the Faroe Islands and the Denmark (coal and fleece of Mouton).

During the Second world war, it returns to the great fishing to supply the Great Britain. From 1946, it is repurchased and used for fishing with cod until 1953. It is resold in 1954 and its mature is deposited. Transformed into motor boat and classified Schooner of wood, it practices fishing with the Hareng, then the Crevette, and returns to the coastal traffic in 1969. Disarmed this same year, it is in 1978 qu ' a team of Swedish repurchases it, and gives it in state whereas he was promised with the destruction. The mast is modified and the interior installation adapted to cruising. In 1987, it is affected with cruising (its home port is Stockholm). In 1992, it is renamed Bla Marité af Pripps and gains the travel of the sailing ships.

In 1994, a Grouping of public interest French, “Marité”, made up of several local government agencies Normans (of which the town of Rouen, the Board of director of the English Channel the Regional council of High-Normandy, the town of Fécamp, and the General advice of the Eure) and chaired by Gerard d' Aboville acquires it and the Marité gains its new home port, Rouen. It becomes the one televisual season time the plate of the emission Thalassa on France 3.

Since January 2006, the Marité is in the dry hold with Cherbourg-Octeville in the Napoleon form for important renovation works which are planned for one two years period.

Characteristics

overall length: 47 m
length with the floating: 32 m
Draft: 4,2 m
aerofoil (13 veils): 650 m ²
driving: 460 ch

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