Wooden Solvays weren’t rare; there were about 130 of them ( Solvay 63-64 , 101-217, and 301 - 320).
From information found on this wooden decked barge in an old
Solvay fleet register: built in Thuin (Belgium) in 1901; Solvay bought
this Marceau from Auguste Sommelette in December 1919, for the sum of 16,000
francs, and renamed it Solvay 177, which received the registration number
NY2320F in November 1921; then resold it in 1932 to Désiré Lecoq, of
Dombasle-sur-Meurthe, for 9,000 francs. It was then renamed Marceau.
An old postcard showing Solvay 177:
Also as a stamped postcard:
Showing more detail:
Here are two photos of the Désiré Lecoq family on the Marceau,
around 1947:
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