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HELLO, if you are English and reading this :
We are offering a reward of up to 500 euros (five hundred) if you can help us find the shipbuilder who built this Nemo!
The course of the Nemo on 1 October 1875...
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Sketch made from views taken by the ROV... At a depth of 300 m (984 ft), lying in the mud!
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Sketch from views taken by the ROV...
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Wreck of the sunken steam yacht Nemo, lying at a depth of 300 m (984 ft).
Her captain was Dr
William Marcet
(1828-1900(4?)).
He was very keen on the first motorboats/yachts: (he had at least 6).
His grandson, Guy de Pourtalès, writes in "Marins d'eau douce" that his first tour of the lake was in the "Papillon", a heavy pinnace with 3 sails.
He writes also that his grandfather,
W. Marcet also owned the
- "Ibis", a cutter with sails, and
- the "Etincelle", a type of canoe powered by naphtha.
J. Naef, in "Yachts à vapeur du Léman," adds that he also owned:
- the steam yacht "Héron"
- the steam launch "Sultan"
- the steam launch "Triton"
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