Solvay 123

Solvay 123, registration NY3661F, was built in 1963 in Chalon-sur-Saône.  Unless indicated otherwise the following is sourced from Vagus-Vagrant.fr.

Solvay 123 was put up for sale in 1987, the year the Solvay fleet ended, when René and Geneviève Lafarge transferred to the factory. It was bought by the Cooperative Agricole de la Brie in Nangis (77), which renamed it La Brie 1 and changed its registration number to P1536F. In 2000, Louis and Chantal C. from Saint-Mammès (77), acquired it and renamed it Garabit. In early 2014, the new owner, Mr. Joan G. on the pushed convoy Diane & Leader gave it the new name Outsider. At one point, it would be a pusher for the barge Leader.  Today, in 2025, it is still sailing but is for sale.

Solvay 123 leaving the shipyard, during trials with an upgraded 207 hp engine on the Grand Canal d'Alsace, here near Vogelgrün, with the Saint-Etienne collegiate church of Vieux-Brisach (Breisach am Rhein, Germany) in the background:

In the summer of 1970, loading took place in Couillet (Belgium), for Basel:

In the summer of 1964, during a shutdown of the Canal de l'Est, a group of Solvays in Donchery: 123, 122, 81, 87 and 84:

Solvays 67, 87, 101, 123 and another one, as yet unidentified, at Dombasle:

Here, at Masnières, you can see on the hatches a plaque with the motto, the registration number, the large tonnage (407 tonnes at 2.70m, these three new ones were 10cm longer than the big Solvay ones ), and the name of the captain (Lucien Gallaert, known as Nénette, but that doesn't appear on the plaque!); and also a sticker of AS Nancy-Lorraine at the bottom of the first window on the side of the awning!

Here are a couple of shots with Solvay 70 at Malmy in 1984 or 1985:

Here she is alongside Solvay 117, both loaded with coke:

Solvay 104 and Solvay 123 moored at Dombasle (on the left, the Maugras saltworks, and behind the boats, the guillotine bridge, a railway drawbridge):

Two photos from the Albert canal in Genk. Solvay 123 on the inside, Solvay 121 in the centre and Solvay 113 on the outside:

Three photos of Solvay 123 at the Chalon-sur-Saône shipyard in 1962: the bow, the stern and the launching:

In Tavaux in 1965:

In Pagny-sur-Meuse in 1968:

In Varangéville in 1983:

In Liverdun in 1986:

Solvay 123 Leaving the Chalon-sur-Saône shipyard in 1962:

When Solvay sold her she was renamed La Brie:

Garabit leaving a lock:

An unsourced picture of Garabit:

Gabarit at Pontoise lock:

Some more pictures of Gabarit:

Gabarit in December 2000:

Here she is as Outsider loading at Chercq on the Escaut in April 2022:

Another shot of Outsider. This time heavily laden with, it is believed, wheat bound for Gennevilliers:

Outsider pushing Leader  at Chatou bridge July 3 2015:

Outsider in Paris:

On April 29 2014 in Conflans:

Outsider in Conflans on June 7 2018:

Outsider in 2014 delivering the Christmas tree to the Élysée Palace: