''Pourquoi-Pas'' or ''Pourquoi Pas?'' (from French ''pourquoi pas?'' 'why not?') may refer to one of these ships:
* Four ships owned by the French navigator and naval officer
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
Jean-Baptiste Étienne Auguste Charcot, better known in France as Commandant Charcot, (15 July 1867 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris – 16 September 1936 at sea (30 miles north-west of Reykjavik, Iceland), was a French scientist, medical doctor ...
:
** , a
cutter that Charcot had built in 1893 and in which he made a 2-week voyage in 1894. He sold her in 1896 to buy ''Pourquoi Pas ? II''
** , the new name given by Charcot to a wooden
schooner
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he bought in 1896, sold in 1897, and bought back in 1897; from 1897 he sailed her in British waters and in 1902 sailed towards Iceland, entering the Arctic Circle for the first time and approaching the glaciers
** , the new name given by Charcot to a iron schooner with a steam-engine he acquired in 1897 and in which he sailed down the
River Nile
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as far as
Aswan
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Aswan is a busy market and tourist centre located just north of the Aswan Dam on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract. The modern city ha ...
with the millionaire
Vanderbilt
** , the most famous of the four
* , a research vessel of the
IFREMER
The or Ifremer is an oceanographic institution in Brest, France. A state-run and funded scientific organization, it is France’s national integrated marine science research institute.
Scope of works
Ifremer focuses its research activities in ...
and the
French Navy
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, named in honour of the previous ships
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French Navy ship names