Solvay 16

Solvay 16, registration NY2284F, was built at Frouard in 1895.  In 1928 it was motorized with a 20 hp Deutz engine. All information on this page is obtained from Vagus-Vagrant.fr unless stated otherwise.

Solvay 16 was sold in 1956 and renamed Le Turf. After modernizing it with a 48 hp Baudouin engine, it dredged on the Aisne River from Vailly-sur-Aisne to Péronne until 1967. It was then resold, only to be abandoned at the Bassin Rond (Round Basin), where it was scrapped in 1972 or 1973.

Undated and with no location provided:

Image taken from the film "Les chemins qui marchent" by Jean Calvel in 1960:

From 1967 and it looks like the canal du Nord:

A not very good quality photo of the BOULANGER family:

Postcard written in August 1938 showing Solvay 16 at Villefranche-sur-Saône:

Postcard addressed to the Compagnies Réunies des Glaces et Verres Spéciaux du Nord de la France, "Division Saint-Laurent", in Aniche, in the North. It was posted in Void, in the Meuse, on December 5, 1942, and franked with a brown-red stamp of one franc and twenty centimes, bearing the effigy of Marshal Pétain, which was in circulation from January 1942 to November 1944. The correspondence tells us more about the boat, the sailor, the voyage:

The self-propelled vessel "Solvay 16,"

skippered by Meyer Charles

bound for Bouchain

passed through Void

on December 4, 1942.