Solvay 60

Solvay 60, registration NY3002F, was built in 1929 at Villeneuve la Garenne. Unless stated otherwise all information is obtained from Vagus-Vagrant.fr.  

Solvay 60 was purchased by Sablières Modernes located in La Rochette (77), it became a barge under the name Iton. It was scrapped a few years later.

Here's Solvay 60 in the early 1950s having her engine changed at Villeneuve la Garenne:

Here is a notice of passage concerning this boat, sent to Solvay in Saint-Ouen: the Solvay 60, boatman Dubois, has arrived in Rouen.  The line concerning the date is blank, and the date stamp is illegible, but fortunately, the stamps help us to date this document: the blue 10 centime Mercury stamp was issued from 1938 to 1942, and the red 30 centime Mercury stamp from 1939 to 1942, so we can reasonably estimate that this card was written between 1939 and 1942.

The general consensus is that this was taken at the Marne-Seine junction:

In 1958, at the Chalon-sur-Saône construction site to renovate the housing:

Solvay 60 on the Meuse:

Being towed by a tug in Maastricht:

In floods at Lyon:

Being towed in Belgium:

The next sequence of photos are on the Rhine when she was under tow from Huningue to Basel:

On the Doubs (Rhône-Rhine canal), at the exit of the Thoraise tunnel:

In the winter of 1963 Solvay 60 with Solvay 111 behind it was trapped in ice for three months on the Meuse, in the Vanne-Alcorps channel (lock no. 53, downstream from Fumay, Ardennes); it was loaded with bags of animal feed, it had to be unloaded on site to recover the merchandise (photos from Studio Moiny, 51 Grande Rue in Fumay) :

With Provimi written on the truck tarpaulin: an animal feed distributor that still exists today

Unloading coke at Dombasle in 1970:

In the Saverne lock:

And finally, a beautiful collector's item kept by Joël, which I was able to see, touch, feel, smell... one of the Solvay 60 plates made by his father, which he was able to put on the boat despite Solvay 's reluctance (not the usual colours) and which he kept when he disembarked: