Paul Emmanuel DURAND COUPEL DE SAINT-FRONT dit MARIN-MARIE (1901-1987)

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Paul Emmanuel DURAND COUPEL DE SAINT-FRONT dit MARIN-MARIE (1901-1987)
Four-Masted Barque, The Richelieu and its Pilot Watercolour gouache, signed lower right 49 x 71 cm Ship of the LAEISZ Company, the four-masted barque Paula is launched in 1916 at the BLOHM and VLOSS shipyards of Hamburg. Completed before the armistice, she is attributed to France in application of the treaty of Versailles. In 1924 she will be registered in Nantes and renamed Richelieu. She becomes a sailing school ship with a crew of 52 men. After 3 years of navigation, she loads pitch in Baltimore and catches fire on January 4th 1927. The ship sank and the wreck was sold for demolition.
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