French ship Pourquoi Pas ?
- French ship Pourquoi Pas ?
Five ships have born the name "Pourquoi Pas ?" ("Why not ?"):
* Four ships owned by the French navigator and naval officer Jean-Baptiste Charcot (the name originating from "why not?", his reply to anyone who questioned his childhood devotion to becoming a sailor)
** "Pourquoi Pas ? I" - a 19.5m cutter that Charcot had built in 1893 and in which he made a 2-week voyage in 1894. He sold it in 1896 to buy "Pourquoi Pas ? II"
** "Pourquoi Pas ? II", the new name given by Charcot to a 26m wooden schooner he bought in 1896, sold in 1897, and bought back in 1897. From 1897 onwards he sailed it in British waters and in 1902 sailed towards Iceland, entering the Arctic Circle for the first time and approaching th glaciers.
** "Pourquoi Pas ? III", the new name given by Charcot to a 31m iron schooner with a steam-engine he acquired in 1897 and in which he sailed down the River Nile as far as Aswan with the millionaire Vanderbilt. He devoted great energy to modifying and improving it.
** "Pourquoi Pas ? IV", the most famous of the four.
* "Pourquoi Pas?", a research vessel of the IFREMER and the French Navy, named in honour of the previous ships.
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