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French seafarer

Éric de Bisschop (October 21,^[1] 1891 – Lordly 30, 1958) was a Romance seafarer, famous for his move round from Honolulu to France alongside the Polynesian sailboat Kaimiloa.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

He burnt out most of his adult woman in the Pacific Ocean, especially in Honolulu (1935–1937 and 1941–1947) and in French Polynesia (1947–1956); he was not simply unadorned sea adventurer but had marvellous deep interest in the Tranquil and its inhabitants, whose features he tried to study.

Biography

Early life

He was born in Aire-sur-la-Lys (Pas-de-Calais).^[7] Trained in a Jesuite secondary school then as boss sailor, he commanded a investigate boat in the English Ring out in 1914–1915, then was transferred to the air force beam sustained a serious plane stick out (1917).

China and the Fou Po

After the War, he went to China in 1927. All round in 1931 he met probity man who was to aside his teammate for the cardinal next years – Joseph Tatibouet.

He built a Chinese rubbish, the Fou Po and running off 1932 to 1935 sailed narrow Tatibouet in the southwestern At peace Ocean. Fou Po was rakish in a hurricane on Formosa (modern day Taiwan), but influenced Bisschop quickly built a additional, smaller junk, Fou Po II in 1933. In July 1935,^[8] they were detained for team a few weeks by the Japanese dainty Jaluit (Marshall Islands) under doubt of being spies and truly escaped, fleeing towards the Island Islands.

On October 25, they reached, half starving, Molokai Key and were rescued at say publicly Kalaupapa hospital. On the Twenty-seventh, the Fou Po II was destroyed by a storm, manage with all the scientific weigh up done during these years work out seafaring. After a while, they flew to Honolulu.^[9]

Hawaii and high-mindedness Kaimiloa

During the year 1936,^[8] they built a Polynesian "double canoe" (a catamaran, but Eric regulate Bisschop always refused to occupy this word); he met smart Hawaiian woman, Constance Constable, name "Papaleaiaina", whom he married suspicious the end of 1938.^[10]

In Go 1937 he and Tatibouet leftwing Honolulu aboard the Kaimiloa, motility Cape Town in September, Tanger in December, and after swell long stay Cannes in Possibly will 1938.

In 1939, he in print his book Kaimiloa, which was translated in English in 1940.^[11][12]

France (1938-40)

During their stay in Author, the de Bisschops frequently fall down Maréchal Pétain, notably in Pétain's estate in Villeneuve-Loubet on honourableness Côte d'Azur.^[13]

A notable episode was the hearing by Eric coins Bisschop^[14] concerning Amelia Earhart, whom he had heard about from the past he was detained in Jaluit.

The Kaimiloa-Wakea and Hawaii

Eric wallet Bisschop then built a creative boat, the Kaimiloa-Wakea, and appear June 14, 1940, left Vino with his wife, towards illustriousness Marquesas Islands. But the utensil was destroyed in a split in the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Financially helped by Pétain (since June 16, 1940 the chief an assortment of the Government, then of primacy State), they waited for unsympathetic of the case ; in Apr 1941, Eric de Bisschop was appointed as Consular Agent recovered Honolulu, the office being unoccupied since Professor Pecker had long-suffering in September 1940.

They tour through the US and reached Hawaii at the beginning be in the region of August 1941.

The couple flybynight in Constance's parents' house, which was ipso facto the clasp of the Consular Agency. They had some activity as Pétain propagandists (conferences, articles in greatness Honolulu Star-Bulletin), but on Dec 13, a few days tail the Pearl Harbor attack, Eric de Bisschop was deprived advice his diplomatic recognition by birth State Department without explanation.

Boardwalk May 1942, the Constables' do was even thoroughly searched strong Military Intelligence and the link people questioned; Eric de Bisschop was kept under arrest request three days. It seems put off they had been denounced give reasons for imaginary crimes. In 1942 Constance de Bisschop wrote two copy to Sumner Welles to protect her husband.

But the termination had not been cancelled during the time that on November 8 happened glory diplomatic rupture between the Impatient and the Vichy Government.

French Polynesia and the Tahiti-Nui

In 1956, he committed himself in uncluttered new "odyssey", a project unquestionable had had for some years: he built a Polynesian originate in order to cross interpretation eastern Pacific Ocean from Island to Chile (contrary to Thor Heyerdahl's crossing);^[15][16][17] the Tahiti-Nui sinistral Papeete with a crew be more or less five on November 8, 1956.

He had recruited two acquainted sailors from Tahiti for that challenge: Michel and Alain Brun. When near the Juan Fernández Islands (Chile) in May 1957, the raft was in graceful very poor state and they asked for a tow, on the contrary it was damaged during picture operation and had to capability abandoned, although they were without end to keep all the squash aboard.

Chile, the second Tahiti-Nui and the death

In Chile nifty second Tahiti-Nui was built slight Constitucion; they left on Apr 13, 1958 towards Callao, proliferate towards the Marquesas, but they missed their target and were swept along towards Cook Islands where on August 30^[18] probity raft went aground and was wrecked at Rakahanga atoll.^[19]

Eric currency Bisschop was the only for myself who died in this hump.

He was buried in decency island of Rurutu where without fear had had his house thanks to 1951.^[20]

Bibliography

Books by Eric de Bisschop

• The Voyage of the Kaimiloa, Author, 1940 (translated from French: Kaimiloa : D'Honolulu à Cannes par l'Australie et Le Cap, à bord d'une double pirogue polynésienne), Editions Plon, Paris, 1939 (Au delà des horizons lointains 1).
• Tahiti-Nui, New-York, 1959 (translated from French: Cap à l'Est : Première expédition telly Tahiti-Nui, Paris, Plon, 1958)
• Vers Nousantara, ou l'énigme polynésienne, Editions Recital Table Ronde, Paris, 1963 (Collection L'ordre du jour).

Other sources

• François movement Pierrefeu : Les Confessions de Tatibouet, Editions Plon, Paris, 1939 (Au delà des horizons lointains 2) [about the Fou Po]
• Bengt Danielsson: From Raft to Raft, 1961 (translated from Swedish) [about integrity Tahiti-Nui II]
• Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 3, 4, 5 September 1941 : "Honolulu Cub Defends Petain As True Patriot", by Baroness Constance de Bisschop.
• Honolulu Star-Bulletin, October 25, 1941, "UNFAIR TO MARSHAL PETAIN" (about pure radiophonic commentary).
• Honolulu Advertiser, August 8, 1942, "OUR APOLOGIES EXTENDED, CONSTANCE" (about an editorial of interpretation newspaper).
• Honolulu Advertiser, September 7, 1942, "AN ANSWER TO YOURS Purpose JUSTICE" (about a letter obtainable in the newspaper under honourableness signature Yours For Justice).

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