Solvay 103

Solvay 103, registration NY3071F, was built in 1931 at Choisy-le-Roi. All information on this page is taken from Vagus-Vagrant.fr unless otherwise specified.

Solvay 103 replaced an earlier wooden unpowered barge that Solvay had purchased second hand and then resold - see 'Solvay 103 Original'.   When Solvay sold her to S.A. Granulats Rhone Alpes she was renamed Sandrine and has since been scrapped.

Undated and location not known other than Solvay 103 was in a lock:

The donor of this picture was born on Solvay 103:

An undated photo with no location:

Two shots from the canal bridge on the Épinal branch of the canal de l'Est:

With other Solvays at Beuvry:

Two shots from Sedan:

The Solvay 103 in the Troussey aqueduct (55), on the Marne-Rhine Canal, with Joseph Dutremez (father) and his wife Georgina, known as Maria, on the gunwales. It was Joseph Dutremez (father) who went to collect the 103 when it left the shipyard in 1931. The younger couple is Joseph Dutremez (son), seated on the gunwales, and his wife Denise:

Solvay 103 alongside Solvay 109:

Coming out of a lock (no date or location):

Here are five shots of when Solvay 103 was in the shipyard at Chalon-sur-Saône for modifications to the cabin and installation of a galley in 1962: