Fishing Vessel stranded St Loy

I will have a check through when I get a chance - also have a go at enhancing some of these images. There were two Jean Gougys, with slightly different spellings with differing stories, I will try and sort that out as well.

I have a list of French Crabbers of this period, but I do not feel happy that she is Jan - not very French. I am writing up the Jean Gougy and Jeanne Gougy. No doubt this is a crabber - look at the pots all around. I will see what I can do on the enhancement side.

I didn t think the Jan was very likely. I will be interested to see what you can come up with. I will re-scan these once I have a stable platform to work on and try to tease out more detail, unfortunately I am getting random results in many functions including picture editing.

I have tracked down all vessels named Gougy with descriptions; None by the name Jan. What would be good is if you can possibly get a high res scan or take a macro photograph of the painted out name on the stern. She appears to be a Britanny Crabber of around 1939, possibly as late as 1946. She was a working vessel, that is clear. It is probable that she got off after handling rocks etc, on the next tide.

In view of my thoughts on her age, I have checked on the Free French List and the German Requisition Lists, but not on either. Not under any such name as that - I am wondering if she was a purchase, as yet not properly named. That transom picture is very important - if you can. Try a macro photograph of that section. In this picture the crew man (matelot) is re-fixing boards. They must have been reasonably confidant of floating off.

Treeve; thanks for your interest. I don t know who took these photo and the person who wrote the note died many years ago so I ve nowhere to refer queries. I ll have another go at scanning these once I have everything in order, not sure if that will be before my trip home (commencing Lafrowda Day).

I see queries like this as an opportunity for a learning curve, having come across this small fleet of vessels, I am fascinated at the extraordinary history now developing - there is no point in expanding on the terrible loss of those two vessels Jean (man) and Jeanne (lady) Gougy as that was reported well in the press (I will add some notes however, for completeness), but I am discovering quite a history of the other vessels in the fleet.

In view of what I have now written, it appears to me that this vessel may well have been an earlier Jean Gougy; the reason for the painted lines, escapes me, but when you get a chance, a close up of that transom would be ansom. I will upload another Gougy vessel, with full notes on the rest of the vessels. Quite a story, all told.

Treeve, I will have a go , unfortunately the original prints are 2 square, dark and poorly contrasted, the only view from astern is distant so that the beam is about 1/.8 on the print. I ll see what I can do.

Something you could try, is to clean the window; let is fully dry; tape (with masking tape, so it peels off without damaging the paper or surface of the emulsion) the picture (paper to the glass); then take a picture of the photograph using macro setting (less than 1 inch from picture). I feel that this is the only solution to the question that she was the original French Crabber Jean Gougy, but I am intrigued as to why the painted out lines, it may be her name before she became Jean Gougy. All of this information is very difficult to find and to piece together.