&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Pourquoi-Pas_(1908).jpg) Pourquoi-Pas, the ship which served Dr Charcot on his last expedition in the Antarctic; now belonging to the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle
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| Name | Pourquoi-Pas |
| Builder | François Gautier, Saint Malo |
| Laid down | 1907 |
| Launched | 1908 |
| Fate | Wrecked on 16 September 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement | 445 tonnes |
| Length | 40 m |
| Beam | 9.2 m |
| Draught | 4.3 m |
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| Speed | 7.5 knots |
| Capacity | 5 scientists |
| Complement | 35 men |
Pourquoi-Pas (from French pourquoi pas? 'why not?') was the fourth ship built for Jean-Baptiste Charcot, which completed the second Charcot expedition of the Antarctic regions from 1908 to 1910. Charcot died aboard when the ship was wrecked on 16 September 1936, off the coast of Iceland. Of the forty men on board, only one survived.