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L'Aimée-Hilda (PL334386) Canot tous temps 1949

History

Shipyard: Chantiers Jouët, in Sartrouville

Commissioning: 1949

Status: conserved

Technical characteristics

Length: 11.5 m

Midship: 3.23 m

Draught: 0.93 m

Air draft: 7.00 m

displacement: 10.4 tonnes

Propulsion: 2 Baudouin DB2M engines (1949)

Power: 2 × 28 hp

Speed: 7.9 knots

Career

shipper: Aimée-Hilda Association

Flag: France

Homeport: Ploumanac'h

indicative: PL334386

Protection: Heritage Interest Boat (2015)

 

 

History

In august 1944, the German army destroys the shelter and its lifeboat in the Cove of Pors Kamor . In August 1948 a strong emotion in the absence of any means of help in front of the sinking of the Petite Annie provokes a burst of generosity to put a lifeboat back into service. Thanks to the donations of Madame Aimée Fournier and Miss Hilda Gelis Didot, the construction of this new canoe was carried out at the Jouët shipyard in Sartrouville in 1949 1 . They become the godmother and their first names are used to baptize Aimée-Hilda .

 

Pors Kamor's hold will be repaired and a new shelter is rebuilt with its cart and an electric winch.

 

Service

The lifeboat will be used from 1950 to 1975 at the rescue station of the Central Rescue Society (SCS) of Ploumanac'h, which became the National Sea Rescue Society (SNSM) in 1967 1 .

 

Put out of rescue service in 1975, she continued to serve as a service vessel in the floating port of Perros-Guirec .

 

In 1995, the association for the conservation, safeguard, management and operation of the Ploumanac'h Aimée-Hilda lifeboat was created 1 . After two years of restoration, it was relaunched in 1997 and is armed for navigation 5 th class.

 

The only lifeboat of this model still afloat, it participated in numerous maritime events. He was present at the Tonnerres de Brest in 2012 .

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