N° 37 - Uli Grohmann - Germany -

Thank you very much Uli for this nice collage about

Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville :

"He is said to have won the Venus de Milo for France in 1919/1920 and to have identified the site of La Perouse's shipwreck in Vanikoro (part of the archipelago of the Solomon Islands) in 1828."

"It's narrated that - while trying to load the statue aboard the ship - she lost her, since them missing arms, during a quarrel between two ship completements about the question who might be the real owner of the statue"

N° 27 - Uli Grohmann - Germany -

Thank you very much Uli for this new mail art.

Uki written that there is a german navigator who is worth to be mentioned : Felix Graf von Luckner  (1881 - 1966). Probably the last  privateer in the strict term of the sense but he didn't receive financial compensation in exchange of his catch. He earned the epithet "the Sea-Devil".

N° 16 - Uli Grohmann - Germany -

Thank you very much Uli for this card about the movie "the navigator" with Buster Keaton.