Pourquoi Pas ? IV
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 Pourquoi-Pas, Navire qui servit au dr Charcot pour sa derniere expedition dans l'Antarctique; appartient maintenant au Museum d'Histoire Naturelle |
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| Career (France) |  |
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| Builder: | François Gautier, Saint Malo |
| Laid down: | 1907 |
| Launched: | 1908 |
| Fate: | Wrecked on 16 September 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 445 tonnes |
| Length: | 40 m |
| Beam: | 9.2 m |
| Draught: | 4.3 m |
| Propulsion: |
Sail |
| Speed: | 7.5 knots |
| Capacity: | 5 scientists |
| Complement: | 35 men |
The Pourquoi Pas ? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot. She achieved the second Charcot expedition of the Arctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when she was wrecked on 16 September 1936. Of the forty men on board, only one survived.
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