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Re: The shrinking St Michel III

From: Mark Eckell <mark_eckell~at~hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:48:45 +0000
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Warpage


>From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
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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.
> >

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