Douarnenez, 1912. Photos of Charles L'Hermitage

Douarnenez Harbor c. 1912

bateaux dans le port à marée basse

voilier dans le port

bord de mer avec voilier

bateaux dans le port

vue du port

vue du port

vue du port

Caulking seams, other repairs

calfats bretons réparant une coque de bateau

calfats bretons réparant la coque d'un bateau

calfat breton sur la plage

calfats bretons réparant la coque d'un bateau

calfats bretons réparant la coque d'un bateau

calfats bretons nettoyant la coque d'un bateau

calfat breton nettoyant la coque d'un bateau

calfats bretons nettoyant la coque d'un bateau

calfats bretons nettoyant la coque d'un bateau

calfats bretons nettoyant la coque d'un bateau

calfat breton brûlant du goudron

calfat breton réparant un bateau

calfats bretons réparant la coque d'un bateau

calfat breton réparant un bateau

calfat breton nettoyant une voile

calfats bretons

calfats bretons réparant un bateau

calfat breton immatriculant un bateau

calfats bretons brûlant du goudron

calfat breton réparant la coque d'un bateau

calfat breton réparant la coque d'un bateau

calfats bretons réparant un bateau

calfat breton nettoyant la coque d'une barque

calfat breton nettoyant la coque d'une barque

Bretagnie

Paysage de Bretagne

Douarnenez : breton dans son intérieur


Auteur :
Lhermitte Charles Augustin (1881-1945)
all photos

(C) Droits réservés
Crédit photographique :
(C) RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Période :
20e siècle
Date :
1912
Localisation :
Paris, musée d'Orsay

Charles Augustin Lhermitte, French, (1881-1945) was the son of the realist painter Lèon Lhermitte (1844-1925) and worked in photography for about twenty years, stopping in the 1920s.

Although a member of the pictorialist movement, he remained somewhat of a novice to the technique, and was probably influenced more by naturalism, which he inherited from his father, than by symbolism and impressionism. His work is generally characterized by a clear definition rather than the soft focus. (courtesy Wikipedia)

I found this archive and several others via a facebook friend, Pierre-Yves Decosse. Pierre seems to share my love of maritime history and particularly the smaller inshore craft of the local fisherman. The portion of the L'Hermitte archive presented here is minuscule, the archive runs to 500 images.

Douarnenez is still an active fishing port and host to a traditional maritime festival every other
year.

Thanks to the folks at RMN

Whaleboats for the CW Morgan

A quick post to announce a new weblog I am hosting at the behest of John Brady, lead boatbuilder at the Workshop on the Water, the very active boatshop at the Independence Seaport Museum. Wow and Rocking the Boat in NYC have been commissioned to build a whaleboat each, with the goal of fitting out the restoration of the CW Morgan at Mystic Seaport in grand style. These boats will be built in a traditional manner, a combination of lapstrake and carvel planking, lap for the top few strakes and carvel lower down. Originally built all lapstrake, traditional builders and the whalermen themselves came to prefer the quieter carvel planked construction because it was less likely to alert a whale to it's impending demise. The boats will allow for 5 or 6 crew with rowing stations and gunter rigged sailplans. After their completion, they may be allowed to play a bit before joining the Morgan for her first voyage, to New Bedford, MA.
John will be leading the team in Philadelphia. The lofting is complete and we should have a post by Wendy Byar soon on that. The plan is next to build two sets of molds for the boat in Philadelphia with one set being sent to NY. That work is expected to commence in a week or two.
The build in NY will be led by Geoff McKonly, late of Philadelphia where he was the head of the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory for many years. Other institutions may also get involved with builds of their own.
This should be a rewarding couple of builds to follow, and I hope to keep it up at least to the first voyage of the Morgan to New Bedford, we will see what happens after that. I hope you'll stay with us.

And please will some one of my loyal readers have the grace to christen the new weblog, not with champagne but a comment?

Here's the link, Whaleboats for the CW Morgan

Largesse at Mystic Seaport

Rigging






Blocks





Boats









Figureheads



Motors

Carl and his wife are off on a cruise, thanks Carl


All photos and captions courtesy Carl Swebilius , Mystic Seaport and the WoodenBoat Forum

While working through Carl Swebilus' massive thread on the WoodenBoat Forum, there was a lot of compelling material I had to pass by in order to stay focused on the story of the ongoing work of restoring the CW Morgan (see my previous posts). Carl's material is very rich, and lifts the veil for those of us not privy to 'behind the scenes' at this great resource. One of the most striking glimpses was a view into the sheer immensity of the collection and stores at Mystic Seaport. I felt compelled to share a bit of that here. As the work on the Morgan continues towards a 2012 splash, I will likely update the progress. And I will soon have a first post for the building project on the whaleboats for the Morgan.