Ship Details
Marechal Foch Photo Credit: Unknown

 

Registry #1	(Tahiti register)	Registry #2		Registry #3
IMO#		MMSI#		VRN#

 

Name 1	(nk)	Fisherman I	Name 6
Name 2	1930c	Marechal Foch	Name 7
Name 3			Name 8
Name 4			Name 9
Name 5			Name 10

 

Year Built	(nk)	Place	(nk)	Area	(nk)	Country	(nk)

 

Designer	(nk)	Measurement (imp)	? x ? x ?
Builder	(nk)	Measurement (metric)	?m x ?m x ?m
Hull	(nk)	Displacement
Gross Tonnage		Type 1	Schooner, three-masted
Registered Tonnage		Type 2
Engine		Engine Manufacture	(nk)
Repower		Propulsion	Sail
Rebuilds		Call Sign	KNT
Pendant  #		Masters

 

Owner(s)
She was owned by Zane Grey, and operated in French Polynesia.

 

Fate	Registry closed	Date	0000-00-00

 

Named Features
Significance of Name

 

Anecdotes
This vessel operated as a rum runner re-supply vessel from Tahiti warehouses to mother ships on "Rum Row". This vessel could carry 15,000 cases. (Miles, Fraser (1992)). Zane Grey (1872-1939) was a famous writer of Wild West novels. He was also a traveller and world-class fisherman; he visited New Zealand in 1926.

 

References
Miles, Fraser (1992);
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