“L’Etoile de France”, a pretty schooner born in Denmark in 1938, sank on October 29 during storm Céline. The 40-meter long ship, which needed restoration, had been docked in Saint-Nazaire for several years.
The electric pumps, necessary to keep the ship afloat, have undoubtedly stopped working. “We will need divers and a pontoon crane,” says an expert. And the ship is necessarily fragile, it risks breaking!