Hermione 2015

Howdy.

I just started a topic on Facebook to inform my American friends.

I'm very excited: the "Hermione" is leaving France after 11 months to be built in Rochefort. She will reach the US east coasts within about a month.

The link to my message on Facebook -> Hermione 2015

To my American friends...
Do you know about "Hermione"?
I can't write a long message here but...
"Hermione" was General Lafayette's ship when he joined the American Revolutionary War in 1780.
The French rebuilt a replica of "Hermione": this ship is about to leave France tomorrow I guess.





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A Rochefort, depuis 1997, dans l’ancien Arsenal maritime, une équipe de passionnés reconstruit la frégate Hermione, qui en 1780 permit à La Fayette de traverser l’Atlantique pour rejoindre l’Amérique. Ce grand navire en bois, témoin...
HERMIONE.COM

Hermione is -of course- sailing toward the USA
If you want to follow the adventure, here are a few links:
- (Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Hermione_(1779)
- (Hermione web site) http://www.hermione.com/en/home/
- (2015 trip) http://www.hermione2015.com/
- (Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/events/807607435956812/

Enjoy!






French frigate Hermione (1779) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hermione was a 12-pounder Concorde class frigate...
EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

The boat is wonderful!
- it's a replica (at least as close as we could because we had to respect today's sea rules)
- it took 11 months to be built (with the technics of the 18th century)
- cost is 27 billion Euros
- weird points:
--- there're girls as sailors (European rules demand at least 30% women)
--- the team will have 80 sailors (in 1780, there were 300 of them)
--- there will be the French Blue-White-Red flag - of course it didn't exist in 1780 but nowadays sailing rules want a present flag
--- etc

Follow the adventure.
As far as I know the boat will be sailing up the US east coast in about 1 month.