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The grounding was real on March 1, 1965. That day, the tanker coming from Algeria

skidded while anchoring in the port of Tréguier and ran aground on the rocks of
Kérantrez, on the Trédarzec side. The sand dredgers Fleur du Trégor (shipowner Le Jolu)
and Birvideaux (shipowner Perrot) tried in vain to refloat it. It is planted on the rock, and
it will have to be partially unloaded in the Chaix du Trégor then wait for the right tide.
This affair does not please the Indirect Taxes agents who, during trans-shipments, do
not find their account of the number of hectoliters... A trial will follow all the way up to
the Court of Cassation!..”

In Négociants en vin et cidreries à Tréguier
https://patrimoine.bzh/gertrude-diffusion/dossier/IA22133426

About the port of Tréguier:

“After the war, coal traffic with England was still important, as were cement, fertilizers
and potatoes.

During the Second World War, activity was virtually non-existent, and until the 1980s, a
few cargo ships unloaded timber from the North and sand from the Isle of Wight for the

Guézennec establishments.

But the emblematic ship of those years was the pinardier Sloughi, which brought wine
from Algeria for local merchants.”

In La Presse d’Armor https://actu.fr/bretagne/treguier_22362/treguier-port-
commerce-trois-siecles-dhistoire-mouvementee_33712716.html

Editor’s note: Tréguier is a port town in the French department of Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany,
northwestern France. It is the capital town of the province of Trégor.