| The Pourquoi Pas ? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot. She completed the second Charcot expedition of the Arctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when she was wrecked on 16 September 1936. Of the forty men on board, only one survived. The Pourquoi-Pas ? IV, a four-masted bark designed for polar exploration, equipped with a motor and containing three laboratories and a library. It was built at Saint-Malo to plans by Francois Gautier, in his shipyard. 1/100 Scale. 51 cm length. |