'Isle of Farquhar' featured in Seychelles Nation

6/7/2016

The story of the “Isle of Farquhar”, which used to serve the outer islands of Seychelles was featured in today’s issue of “Seychelles Nation”. The Isle of Farquhar was built in Holland in 1909 and named Zeemeeuw. After the Second World War she was bought by a fishing company in Mauritius and renamed La Perle. In 1961 La Perle was purchased by Moulinie & Company to replace the Revenant, and sailed to Seychelles by Captain Julien Joseph Robertson Durup (Berty) of Praslin.

After repairs and renovations she was renamed Isle of Farquhar and began her new life taking workers and supplies to the outlying islands and returning laden with island produce such as maize, copra, livestock and salted fish. She was carried guano from St Pierre to Mauritius and in addition to Seychelles, served Agalega and the Chagos Archipelago. She later became a landmark at her final anchorage at Les Mamelles, Mahé.

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herman aendenboom

15/11/2020 10:03:30 pm

1976 :the ship was bought , refloated and transformed into a restaurant by the belgian saeler Aendenboom
due to the second coup d'état, tourists stopped visiting Seychelles and restaurant went bankrupt and the owner left in 1980. In 2006 the leftover of the looted ship was removed

John Marcus Savy

3/1/2022 07:41:53 pm

I sailed as motor man with Capt Buick,Guy Adam Nan Officer,Harvy Brain,Radio Man,Nyene,Boswain,Concrella the Cook,and others on a few of her voyages,but all the waves seemed to be going up hill,on my final trip back from Mauricious I told The Port Capt that the ship was now only good as a Flower Pot as the sky could be seen from places that you should not be able to see the sky.That is all except I wish well and good health to All that sailed on her.Regards Marcus Savy.

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