Special Features

La Revenante’s correct historical appearance to the 18th and early 19th Centuries make her a valuable resource for communities planning historical pageants or re-enactments, or seeking an attraction vessel. The costumed crew and colorful décor and fittings provide enhanced enjoyment to visitors to the vessel when on display at jettyside or when serving as a venue for catered-in receptions and parties. The well-designed and surprisingly commodious below-decks accommodations, done in snug traditional and lamplit style make La Revenante an ideal expedition ship for research into aspects of marine biology, history, ecology and history-based tourism.

The authentic nature of Revenante's lines and dimensions is confirmed by the following extract from Sir Joseph Banks' journal, written at St. John's Newfoundland as he looks down on the harbour. The entry is dated dated October 10, 1766. "James Cook was also in Newfoundland at the same, whom Joseph Banks later accompanied on the first Pacific voyage of HM Bark 'Endeavour'.

I take this opportunity of setting down the dimensions of a schooner Boat we had with us for a tender as it appears to me the most rational Plan of a Pleasure boat I have met with our People all agreeing that when her hatches were shut down it was scarcely in the Power of wind or water to sink she swimming upon the surface like a corkd bottle her schooner sails also allowing her to be workd by fewer hands than any other Kind she had 42 feet Keel 12 feet Beam & was 5 ½ feet Deep Pink stern deckd flush fore & aft... She Carried mainsail Foresail Fore stay sail & Gib with a square sail to go before the wind. "