Charles-Isidore and Pierre Vacquerie's ship burned by the enemy.
Charles-Isidore and Pierre Vacquerie's ship burned by the enemy.
The ship-owner Charles-Isidore Vacquerie, who had just lost a ship, wrote this disclaimer: "I, the undersigned, ship-owner of the Normand-Breton lugger, burned by the enemy on the Nors Bank, hereby authorize Captain Pierre Vacquerie [his brother], commanding the said ship, when it sank, to receive for me the price of the sale of the carcass of the said lugger […]”. On the back, Pierre Vacquerie writes this note, after the sale, made on May 10 in La Rochelle: “Received from the naval commissioner the sum of two thousand nine hundred eighty-seven francs, seventy-five centimes, for payment of all account both for the proceeds of the hull of the lugger Le Normand-Breton and for my vacations in the salvage of the cargo and the ship as well as for the freight of the goods saved […]. P. Vacquerie”.