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Le Lapérouse is the lead ship of the Ponant Explorers-class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer, and Le Lapérouse is named after naval officer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse. [1] [2]
Le Jacques Cartier is the sixth ship of the Ponant Explorers class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer. [1] Initially, the sixth ship in the class was named Le Surville, after Jean-François-Marie de Surville, a French trader and navigator.
Having kept bonds with the English speakers (he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English) and with French soldiers in North Africa (under Admiral Lemonnier), Jacques-Yves Cousteau (whose villa "Baobab" at Sanary was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa "Reine"), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ...
Le Dumont-d'Urville is the fourth ship of the Ponant Explorers class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer. Initially, the fourth ship in the class was to have been named Le Kerguelen, after explorer and naval officer Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec. [1]
Le Bellot is the fifth ship of the Ponant Explorers class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer, and Le Bellot is named after Joseph René Bellot, a French naval officer and Arctic explorer. [1] [2] [3]
The estate of a French explorer killed along with others in the implosion of the deep-sea submersible Titan last year has sued the company that built it and embarked on the deadly trip to the ...
The vessel, which has a capacity of 196 passengers, sailed into the Breton port as part of a 10 day cruise from Dublin, Ireland, to Lisbon in Portugal, priced from €8,048 per passenger, reports ...
This is a list of maritime explorers. The list includes explorers which had contributed, and continue to contribute to human knowledge of the planet's geography ...