The Pourquoi-Pas? IV was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste
Charcot. She completed the second Charcot expedition of the
Arctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when
she was wrecked on 16 September 1936. Of the forty men on
board, only one survived. A four-masted bark designed for
polar exploration, equipped with a motor and containing three
laboratories and a library. It was built at Saint-Malo.
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