It’s fair to say that the task of conveying the flame to France is only the latest of the ship’s adventures over the past 128 years. The Belem escaped disaster in 1902 during a massive ...

The iconic French three-masted ship Le Belem is making a stopover ... with steel masts reaching 34 meters high, Le Belem was built in Nantes in 1896. It arrives in Morocco after a stop in Lisbon ...

It's such an emotion for me", Tony Estanguet, Paris Olympics chief organiser, told reporters before the departure of the ship from Piraeus ... held in Athens in 1896. The Belem set sail on ...

After 12 days of sailing aboard the ship Belem, the Olympic flame will reach Marseille, where 150,000 people are already prepared to welcome it, less than three months before the start of the ...

The arrival the French barque Belem will launch ... so the ship had to return to Nantes for repairs. As a merchant vessel, it crossed the Atlantic 33 times from 1896 to 1913, bearing Brazilian ...

The flame will travel from Athens' port of Piraeus on the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship built in 1896 — the year of the first modern games in Athens. According to Captain Aymeric ...

told reporters before the departure of the ship. He hailed the "great coincidence" how the Belem was launched just weeks after the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896.

He hailed the "great coincidence" how the Belem was launched just weeks after the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in 1896 ... who watched the ship starting its voyage with his ...

The French ship Belem was moored off the Cromer coast yesterday and left this morning. Dave 'Hubba' Roberts, who lives in Cromer, took pictures of it yesterday, when the sea was choppy ...