France I (ship)

France I (sometimes La France) was one of the largest five-masted barques of its time, with a steel hull and masts, built in 1890 by the Scottish shipyard D. and W. Henderson and Company of Partick, near Glasgow, for the Bordes et fils shipping company of Dunkirk, the leading French fleet of sailing cargo ships that rounded Cape Horn and the second largest in the world at that time.

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