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Related: About this forum'She sails like a bird' ! - Replica French frigate to recreate Lafayette's voyage to US
"The Hermione, the ship that reunited Lafayette and Washington and sealed our freedom, sails again for America..."Some crew members wear 18th Century sailor's outfits
The project is the brainchild of a group of history and sailing enthusiasts who two decades ago embarked on the arduous task of recreating the vessel using only eighteenth-century shipbuilding techniques.
The frigate is scheduled to make more than 10 stops in the United States as it sails up the east coast, including in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.
Hermione will also sail into the bay of New York just in time for July 4 independence celebrations, with an expected escort of hundreds of local yachts.
Building the Hermione in Rochefort history in the making
http://www.france24.com/en/20150418-hermione-lafayette-ship-history-france-revolutionary%20/
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Wish I could be there for her launch. She's setting sail from the island of Aix near Rochefort, Charente-Maritime on the Atlantic coast.
That's where the original Hermione was built and where she shipped anchor for the Revolutionary War.
Learn more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Hermione_%281779%29
http://www.the-french-atlantic-coast.com/what-to-see/visit-the-hermione-at-rochefort/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochefort,_Charente-Maritime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-d%27Aix
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'She sails like a bird' ! - Replica French frigate to recreate Lafayette's voyage to US (Original Post)
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
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malthaussen
(17,672 posts)1. Does the crew get to eat moldy salt meat
... and weevily biscuit, and drink water with brown things growing in it? Naw, this is a French ship after all. Wrecked in 1793. (Her successor of the same name was also wrecked. Sailing was no picnic back then)
May she have fair winds and following seas.
-- Mal
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)2. How about a gourmet menu whipped up by those French galley chefs?
Lucky select crew members!
malthaussen
(17,672 posts)3. French army rations are amazing...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303942404579361111375345976
Beats the heck of of C Rations, and MREs are not much better. Imagine what our military budget would be if we fed our troops like that.
-- Mal
Beats the heck of of C Rations, and MREs are not much better. Imagine what our military budget would be if we fed our troops like that.
-- Mal
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)4. Mais ma/mon chèr(e) - on ne mange pas n'importe quoi même
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dans l'armée.
(My dear, even in the army, we don't eat just any old thing!)
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)5. Cool!
Thanks for posting!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)6. You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it.