#DETAILS#
SERGEE MARINE Manufacture BRISBAN MOSS canvas - UK -
1 breast patch pocket + 1 inside pocket (which differentiates it from the traditional Vareuse)
Natural corozo button Manufacture BROCHOT - France -
French and European manufacture.
WE ADVISE YOU TO TAKE 1 SIZE ABOVE YOUR USUAL SIZE IF YOU WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE
Washing instructions
Wash at 30°C
Do NOT tumble dry.
#HISTORY#
The MARTINIÈRE was a cargo ship converted into a prison ship
Built in 1911 at the W. Gray and Co. shipyard in Hartle Pool, England, she was launched in 1912 under the name Armanistan. In 1913 she came under the German flag under the name Duala, which was the capital of Cameroon, then in German possession.
She was converted into a floating prison at the Lorient arsenal, replacing "La Loire", which had transported convicts to Cayenne from 1900 to 1914. Since 1891, CNNV had had a contract with the Ministry of Colonies to transport convicts to the various prisons.
It entered service in 1922 under the name MARTINIERE.
Until 1938, it provided the link to French Guiana with an average of two rotations a year.
She was sold in July 1939 to the French Navy, which used her as a floating pontoon in Lorient, where she was sunk in June 1940 following a British air attack.
Those sentenced to penal servitude were held in the fortress on the island of Ré, in St Martin de Ré, before being sent to French Guiana.
With the closure in 1873 of the last metropolitan penal colony in Toulon, preceded by the closure of the Rochefort penal colony in 1852 and the Brest penal colony in 1858, the citadel at Saint-Martin-de-Ré, which was already operating as a penitentiary, became the main place of concentration for convicts from the various prisons.
