Maréchal Suchet

Three-masted steel ship built in 1902 by Chantiers Ateliers Penhoet, St Nazaire. Dimensions: 86,7×12,4×7,3 m and tonnage: 2270 GRT, and 1991 NRT.

1902 November: Completed and delivered to Cie. de Navigation Française, Nantes, France.
1904: Sold to Societé des Voilers Nantais, Nantes, France.
1910 February 18: Stranded on the Shingle Bank in a gale while under tow from Falmouth to London. She was badly damaged but was refloated on February 22 and was subsequently repaired.
1921: Sold to Societé des Voilers Français, Le Havre, France.
1922: Laid up in the River Gironde.
1923: Sold to A/S Freedom (E. Friis-Hansen, mgr), Oslo, Norway, and was renamed Faith.
1924 July: Sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, for £ 3100 and was renamed the Pellworm.
1925: Sold to Syndikatsreederei, Hamburg, and used in the harbour of Hamburg as an accomodation ship for strike-breakers.
1933: Sold to Reichsverband Deutscher Jugendherbergen, Hamburg, and was rebuilt at Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, to a floating youth hostel, and was renamed Hein Godenwind.
1943 July 25: Sank at her moorings after an air-raid. The wreck was subsequently raised and used for target practice.
1944 February 9: Sunk by the Luftwaffe during target practice.

Updated 1997-05-07 by Lars Bruzelius