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Re: The shrinking St Michel III

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:31:18 +0200 (CEST)
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The details some people manage to find out... Amazing!

I couldn't think of an explanation, I'm afraid.

Garmt.

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 ithompson~at~geog.gla.ac.uk wrote:

> When Verne bought the St Michel III in 1877 he insured it with
> Lloyd of London. In the 1880 Yacht Register of Lloyd's Register of
> British and Foreign Shipping, she is recorded as having a length of
> 107.3 feet. The 1884 Register gives a length of 101.3 feet and in
> 1887, by which time ownership had passed to the Prince of
> Montenegro with a home port of Cattaro, the registered length was
> only 98.5 feet. It is known that in 1881 the bowsprit was dismantled
> to pass through the Kiel Canal (presumably a temporary measure)
> but one wonders how the vessel managed to shrink by nearly 8%
> in 7 years.
> Ian Thompson.
>
Received on Tue 08 Jul 2003 - 11:32:38 IDT

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