For "the frigate of freedom", the blow is hard.
Since September 2021, the famous three-master, a faithful replica of
L'Hermione
, the French warship which took the Marquis de La Fayette to support the insurgents against the English during the American War of Independence, has been condemned to remain in drydock. in the port of Bayonne (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) for an indefinite period.
The case begins in the spring of 2021, during a routine maintenance check, when polypores of cellars and lenzites, two species of xylophagous fungi
(which attack wood, editor's note)
are discovered by chance on some lined, pieces of wood constituting the outer skin of the hull.
Concentrated aft to port, just below the waterline, the contaminated area was quickly circumscribed and two temporary planks, caulked and covered with a copper plate to ensure maximum watertightness, were put in place.
A temporary repair that allows
L'Hermione
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