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Bateau amphibie (French coastal amphibious boats)
France · Boat-car
| Also known as | Bateau amphibie |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Type | Boat-car |
| Use | Civilian |
Specifications need checking. Some figures here were taken from the archive and have not been confirmed against a source.
Bateau amphibie ("amphibious boat") is the French term for the wheeled boats used along the tidal coasts of Normandy and Brittany, where very large tidal ranges leave harbours and shellfish beds alternately flooded and dry. This collective record gathers loose pictures from the archive folder that are not tied to one specific craft, including an original wood engraving from an 1897 magazine showing an early amphibious boat.
Specific craft from the same folder - the Tatihou II passenger boat, the mussel amphibians of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, the Brittany oyster trucks, the Elizabeth Castle boat in Jersey and the 'paddleduck' pictures - have their own records.
1 Photographs
12 photographs in the archive folder. Click any image to view it full size.
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