Return 1729
A R M A M E N T
L’Eléphant bound for Quebec
D E P A R T M E N T of La ROCHELLE
Crew of the ship L'Elephant built in 17__at ___weighting 100/130 tons draughting 11 feet loaded
9 feet unloaded, 2 decks, a poop. Owned and armed by Roy at La Rochelle under the command of
Captain De Desgouttes bound for Quebec.
L'Elephant bound for Quebec was shipwrecked on the sandbanks of Cap Brule near Iles auxCoudres or Iles aux grues.
Departed La Rochelle June28, 1729
Shipwrecked September 1,1729
Disposition of the passengers : Some refugees landed at Ile d'Aix ; more than 150 persons including a number of clergymen.
| Officers | |||
| Desgouttes | Captain | ||
| Sior of St Surin | |||
| Sailors | |||
| Novices | |||
| Ship's boy | |||
| Staff | |||
| Mathurin Escaravage | Servant on L’Eléphant | 58 years old | |
| Pierre Pipet | Sieur de St Surin 's butler | ||
| Passengers | |||
| Mgr Dosquet | Bishop of Samos | ||
| M. Hocquart | Commissioner Genaral who became Quartermaster | ||
| The count of Vaudreuil | |||
| M. de Cavagnial | |||
| M. de Rigaud and his two brothers | |||
| The Father Luc | Father Récollet | ||
| The abbot Claude de Vernede de St Poncy | Secretary to the Bishop | ||
| The lawyer Le Beau | |||
| The knight of Courbuisson | |||
| The knight of Beauville of Picardie | |||
| The knight of Texte | Parisian | ||
| The Sieur Varin Coneur | |||
| The Sieur Bernard | King 's scribe | ||
| Mrg de la Tour | Dean of the Assembly | ||
| Three Ecclesiastics of St Sulpice | |||
| Four Ecclesiastics of Quebec | |||
| Two Jesuits missionaries | |||
| One Recollet Missionarie | |||
| The Sieur Formel | Canon of Quebec | ||
| The Sieur Daulnay | |||
| The brother Ange | |||
| Le Pelletier | |||
| Pierre of Mesme | |||
| Sieur Le Beau | |||
| Soldiers | |||
| François Bessé | Known as Jolicoeur | ||
| Michel Guimaud | Known as Langevin | Pommeroy Company |