"I've since learned that the Cap Pilar was built in 1911 at St Malo. It is described variously as a 295-tonne Newfoundland cod-fishing schooner, or as a barquentine. And it set off on an extensive round-the-world voyage in September 1936, returned to Falmouth two years later and ended up as a derelict in Wivenhoe. I was sad to find out that it eventually met a fiery death in 1966."
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"I've since learned that the Cap Pilar was built in 1911 at St Malo. It is described variously as a 295-tonne Newfoundland cod-fishing schooner, or as a barquentine. And it set off on an extensive round-the-world voyage in September 1936, returned to Falmouth two years later and ended up as a derelict in Wivenhoe.
I was sad to find out that it eventually met a fiery death in 1966."
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