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Many thanks to Admiral Guirec Doniol ! Great sleuthing Antoine ! This is very interesting provenance.

Greg Rudzinski 

From: Antoine Couëtte
Date: 2015 Jun 30, 08:53 -0700

Dear all,

Five Star Admiral Guirec Doniol, whom I have known from the time I was a F8E(FN) "Crusader" fighter pilot in the French Naval Aviation (he was then the Commanding Officer of the FOCH Aircraft Carrier), discovered only a few days ago a self-Résumé typed by his Father Robert Doniol. Admiral Doniol just gave me permission this afternoon to publish it on our NavList site.

You will find this full Résumé (6 page document) in French, from which I have also extracted a 2 page "digest" covering only his contributions to Navigation. I am willing to translate this 2 page document from French into English if it raises sufficient attention. I know that some of you should find it quite interesting (Greg for example) and that some others will have no difficulty understanding it, e.g. "pas de problème avec la langue de Molière, n'est-ce pas, Andrés ?"

Among other accomplisments, we can read in bottom part of Page 3 that M. Robert Doniol - when a Navy Lieutenant before he later became an Hydrographer in the French Navy - avoided a terrible accident in the "Chenal de la Teignouse" (La Teignouse [dire] straights) in the spring of 1938.

Hydrographer Robert Doniol also invented the Best Sextant I ever used: the DONIOL-LEPETIT Sextant. M. LEPETIT was its Manufacturer.

And on Page 6 you will also find a mention of his most celebrated (here in NavList) "Table de Point Miniature" published in issue # 10 of the French NAVIGATION Magazine. I have a scanned copy of this article and - before watching you FER stumbling on any copyright issue - I am requesting from the Secretary General of NAVIGATION to publish this April 1955 eight page article in NavList.

We certainly can extend our Most Grateful Thanks to Admiral Guirec Doniol.

Thanks to all for your Kind Attention

 

Kermit

 

Antoine M. "Kermit" Couette