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Martinière Lock

Martinière Lock

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Martinière Lock

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Location: Le Pellerin, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

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1. Circuit de Chaumes-en-Retz vers Le Pellerin par les marais à Buzay et EV1;EV6

41.0km

02:23

170m

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2. The Loire by Bike – Le Pellerin Ferry loop from Paimbœuf

51.2km

02:53

90m

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3. Le Pellerin Ferry – The soft boat loop from Rezé - Pont-Rousseau

52.7km

03:13

290m

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Fred

November 28, 2022

Ten years of pharaonic work for a canal which ultimately only served twenty years.
Beautiful place for walks and a great classic for cycling between Nantes and the ocean.

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Michel K.

May 16, 2019

This channel runs along the south bank of the mouth of the Loire and is at most 5 to 6 kilometers from the river. It has a length of about 15 kilometers and extends over the territory of the municipalities of Pellerin and Frossay. A small part of the canal ends in the Buzay Canal, a derivative of Acheneau (Wikipedia)

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August 11, 2019

The bike path to here follows, for 15 kilometers, the channel of Martinière (or officially Canal Maritime de la Basse Loire). This canal runs along the south bank of the Loire Estuary, leaving at most 5 to 6 kilometers from the river.
Proposed by engineer Adolphe Radiguel in 1861 to allow transatlantic ships to reach Nantes, the canal is operational in 1892 after 10 years of pharaonic work. Some of the machinery and equipment was previously used for the construction of the Suez Canal.
Three major structures are built for the lock's operating system: the Martinière (in the east), the Carnet (in the west) and the Champs-Neufs half way along the canal. The latter was also equipped with a siphon, allowing a differentiated water regulation between the moats of Vue marshes and those of the canal itself. Two "boat parks" allow large vessels to cross at the "Teignouse" in Pellerin, and between Roche and Carnet Frossay.
The canal has an intense period of activity with the great navigation which lasts 20 years until 1913, with approximately 10,000 passages during these 20 years, then the fluvial watercraft circulates until 1943. It becomes a cemetery of the tall ships between 1921 and 1927. During the Second World War, the Germans occupy it, then the Americans, from 1957 to 1967, will stock NATO material there. The sea canal is closed to navigation in 1959.
In the 1960s, the canal became the hydraulic control tool of the Pays de Retz. Its devastation began in the 1990s, using small dredges. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_de_la_Martini%C3%A8re

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Location: Le Pellerin, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

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Martinière Lock

1. Circuit de Chaumes-en-Retz vers Le Pellerin par les marais à Buzay et EV1;EV6

2. The Loire by Bike – Le Pellerin Ferry loop from Paimbœuf

3. Le Pellerin Ferry – The soft boat loop from Rezé - Pont-Rousseau

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