SS Rochambeau
SS Rochambeau was a French Transatlantic ocean liner.
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| History | |
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| Name: | Rochambeau |
| Namesake: | Count of Rochambeau |
| Owner: | CGT |
| Ordered: | 1908 |
| Builder: | Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët |
| Launched: | 2 March 1911[1] |
| In service: | 1911 |
| Out of service: | 1934 |
| Refit: | 1926 |
| Homeport: | Le Havre |
| Fate: | Scrapped 1934 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 12,678 GRT |
| Length: | 598 ft (182 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft 4 in (19.30 m) |
| Capacity: | 2,028 |
Career
She was named after the Count of Rochambeau, a French nobleman and soldier who participated in the American Revolutionary War. The second of a "classe unique" ("unique class") of liners commissioned by the Compagnie générale transatlantique. Entering service in 1911, she was a larger version of SS Chicago which had entered service in 1908.
Between 1915 and 1918, she was part of a regular service between Bordeaux and New York City, the company's flagship SS France having been requested as a hospital ship during World War I. Refitted in 1926, she was scrapped in Dunkirk in 1934.
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See also
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References
- Translated from the equivalent French article
- "The French Liner "Rochambeau"". The Marine Engineer and Naval Architect. Vol. 33. April 1911. p. 315. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
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