Solvay 75, registration NY3084F, was built in 1931 at Villeneuve la Garenne with a 30 hp Deutz engine. All information on this page was taken from Vagus-Vagrant.fr unless otherwise specified.
The Solvay 75 was put up for sale in 1984 when Armand DEPINOY transferred to the Solvay 79. It was bought by Mr. BARBIER. This new owner, having family in Sermaize (55), renamed it "Sermaizien". Their daughter and her husband sailed it until the mid-1990s, when it was scrapped in Couvrot (51).
Solvay 75 leaving the Aingeray lock in the early 1980s:
Solvay 75 is on the left and number 67 is on the right. Photo
published in the newspaper L'Est Républicain on May 22, 1978:
Solvay 75 on the right on this postcard and close up from Dombasle:
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The village in the distance is Villey-Saint-Etienne upstream
from the Aingeray dam. So to the right of the photo was the Marne-Rhine canal
before the Moselle was canalized. See second picture for a wider view:
Here is the cover of the September 1985 issue (#158) of NC-Kroniek, the Solvay company's internal Flemish-language magazine ; it shows, from left to right, the Solvay 105, the 75 and the 79. This photo dates from 1976. These three Solvay barges were stuck in the port of Antwerp due to the major Belgian barge strikes. They remained stranded for over a month! It was the captain of Solvay 122 (Alexis H.) who went to retrieve them and brought them up the Rhine and Moselle rivers to Dombasle; as he held a boating licence, he acted as their pilot, since none of them had ever sailed the Rhine before. No more Solvay barges sailed to Belgium after these strikes.
Below the lock at Laneuveville:
Decked out for a wedding in Dombasle with Solvay 92:
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Not sure where I got this postcard of Dombasle but Solvay 67 can be clearly seen and apparently the one with the guys on deck is Solvay 75:
Sermaizien on the Oise-Aisne canal in 1989:
Exiting Soulanges lock on the lateral Marne canal:
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