The historical event which made it famous was sparked by the British donation of the port of St. Louis, Senegal to the French.
The historical event which made it famous was sparked by the British donation of the port of St. Louis, Senegal to the French. To transport the new governor of Senegal, Colonel Julien Schmaltz, in 1816 four ships, the Loire, Argus, Echo, and this ship, set sail, with the woefully inexperienced Hugues de Chaumereys in command. Immediately making the passenger Monsieur Richefort navigator, de Chaumereys chose to sail through the dangerous Arguin bank, and when they were beached de Chaumereys and his rich friends took the lifeboats and abandoned the crew on a rickety raft, where they were eventually forced to resort to cannabalism. FTP, what was this ship immortalized in a painting by Theodore Gericault?
The historical event which made it famous was sparked by the British donation of the port of St. Louis, Senegal to the French.
The Medusa