Les Chemins du Vent | National Historic Ships

Registration number 2642

Status Archived

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Details

Function Service Vessel

Subfunction Launch

Location France

Vessel type Launch - Harbour Service

Archive reason Overseas Watch List

Current use Private use

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required Yes

Web address https://www.helloasso.com/associations/armada-of-resilience

Construction

Builder Bolson, J & Sons Ltd, Poole

Built in 1948

Rig Gaff Ketch

Number of decks 1

Number of masts 2

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Diesel

Dimensions

Length: Overall

72.18 feet (5.18m)

Breadth: Beam

4.00 feet (1.22m)

Depth

2.00 feet (0.61m)

Air Draft

19.00 feet (5.79m)

Tonnage: Gross

32.00

History

LES CHEMINS DU VENT was built by Bolson & Son of Poole and is a motor vessel of timber construction. After completion in 1948 the vessel was donated to the French government at the behest of the British government to help clear Boulogne harbour of bombs and sunken ships following the Second World War.

Subsequently the vessel was sold into private ownership in France and is now based at Marseilles.

Update, February 2023: LES CHEMINS DU VENT is now owned by the NGO Armada of Resilience who are renovating the vessel in the south of France.

Although this vessel is on the Overseas Watch List, we are lacking information about this particular vessel. If you have any information about this vessel, past or present, please contact us.