The 'Belle-Île' was a French owned, steel-hulled, cargo vessel, built at the yard of Chantiers Nantais De Construction Maritime at Nantes and launched during 1903. She left Penarth on the 2nd March 1912 with a cargo of coal bound for Tenerife and was logged passing Lundy Island on the following day. Since that date she has not been heard of and it is assumed that the vessel and her twenty six crew were lost, including her master, J. Penaud. [214]