Built for the Nantes firm of Denis Crovan & Company, for the cocoa trade from Belém, Brazil, to Nantes. Later purchased by the firm of H. Fleuriot & Company, she remained in the same trade (which catered to Parisian chocolatiers) until 1913. In that year, the Duke of Westminster bought her for use as a yacht. Fitted with auxiliary engines, her most obvious external changes were the extension of her deck house forward as far as the foremast and the erection of a distinctive, if uncharacteristic, teak balustrade around the poop. Ten years later she was sold to Sir A. E. Guinness, the brewer, who renamed her Fantôme II and kept her as a yacht until his death in 1950. Thereafter, she was sold to the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice for use as a sail-training ship, chiefly for orphaned boys bound for the Navy. Rerigged as a barkentine, she spent the next three decades in the Adriatic. In the mid-1980s she was purchased by the Paris-based Fondation Belem. Restored to the original rig and name, she is used as a sail-training vessel in European waters. | 
