The military unit embarks
Seven of them remained at Lorient due to illness or other causes:
- Perrin
- Maurice le Quilleq dit Rosporden
- Pierre Calibre dit Pierrot
- Henri Joseph Thomasson dit Thomasson
- Louis Vannier dit Sainte-Menehoult
- Barthélémy Souday
- Georges Seller
Three were hired last minute on 9 March:
- Claude Albrons dit Sanschagin
- Thomas Favelon dit Favelon
- François Gardon dit Léonard