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La RECOUVRANCE (XIX ème) schooner PLANS & DESIGN * 1817 Naval Schooner, Recreated * SUPERsmHEROES

If you would like to download the plans for La Recouvrance, please consider becoming a sponsor of this channel. After becoming a sponsor, you will find download links to all channel PLANS in the COMMUNITY tab through Google Drive. In addition, all sponsors on this channel get access to 75 exclusive videos about ships, their construction, and their history. 2:23 - La Recouvrance: Construction, building, and launching 2:53 - La Recouvrance: Ship PLANS 4:55 - La Recouvrance: Ship MODEL The original inspiration for La Recouvrance came from a class of ships known as the Iris schooners, first designed in 1817 by French naval engineer Hubert. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, the French Navy needed fast, agile vessels to maintain its overseas communications, patrol coastal waters, and extend its presence across the globe. The Iris-class schooners were the answer — small, swift, and equipped with gaff-rigged sails and a square topsail for maximum maneuverability. Only five vessels were built from the Iris design, but their role was critical. They served as courier ships, entrusted with carrying urgent military dispatches across the seas, a lifeline of information in an era when every hour counted. These schooners also had broader duties — monitoring merchant shipping lanes, protecting French economic interests, and, in some cases, helping to combat the transatlantic slave trade along the African and Caribbean coasts. La Recouvrance, launched in the early 1990s, is not a direct copy of one specific schooner, but rather a faithful interpretation of the Iris-class design. She was named after the Recouvrance district of Brest, and her name holds deep symbolic meaning. It traces back to the statue of Notre-Dame de Recouvrance, the Virgin Mary of “recovery” or “return,” once housed in a local church. She was invoked by sailors and their families, praying for safe passage and homecoming — a powerful reminder of the human stories that filled the decks of such vessels. FRANCE Name: La Recouvrance Namesake: Recouvrance Owner: Goelette la Recouvrance Ordered: 1990 Builder: Chantier du Guip Laid down: 11 July 1991 Christened: 14 July 1992 Completed: 1993 Homeport: Brest, France Identification: MMSI number: 227306100 Callsign: FVXQ GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS Displacement: 150 tonnes (170 short tons) Length: 25 m (82 ft), 42 m (138 ft) overall Beam: 6.4 m (21 ft) Height: 28 m (92 ft) Draft: 3.2 m (10 ft) Sail plan: Two-masted square-topsail schooner, 430 m2 (4,600 sq ft) total sail area Capacity: 30 persons Complement: 5: captain, mate, and 3 crew including cook Schooner Model drawings - La Recouvrance Recouvrance official site: https://www.larecouvrance.com/ Enjoy it! Thanks for watching! #BlueprintLaRecouvrance#LaRecouvranceDrawings#LaRecouvrancePLANS