Solvay 86

Solvay 86, registration NY3152F, was built in 1932 at Villeneuve la Garenne with a 30 hp Deutz engine. Unless indicated otherwise the following is sourced from Vagus-Vagrant.fr. Solvay 86 was the last of the Solvays built at Villeneuve la Garenne which started with Solvay 57.  

Solvay 86 was purchased by S.A. Granulats Rhône Alpes and became a barge used for carrying sand and gravel on the Saône River under the name Pierre and has since been scrapped.

Solvay 86 on a postcard of Dombasle:




This photo was taken in Toul on September 5 1933 therefore not long after she was launched.  Note that the front portholes are in view but they'd been removed by the time the postcard above was produced:



Solvay 86 in an issue of BIS, the internal magazine of Solvay -Dombasle (along with Solvay 81). At the time this photo was taken, the captain of the Solvay 81 was René Parent (he was Norbert's father, my husband). He took over this boat in 1958 and it was in the shipyard in Chalon-sur-Saône for modifications in 1962; that's when the forward portholes were removed. So this photo dates from between 1958 and 1962:



Here she is in the Montgon valley on the Ardennes:



Solvay 86 in Dombasle - Taken from the film "Marine Fluviale" by Jean Tedesco – 1947:



In Paris at the liberation with Solvay 56:



Three more images from roughly the same time as the above picture:





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