SS Rochambeau
 leaving St.Nazaire in the dock | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| France | |
| Name: | SS Rochambeau |
| Namesake: | Count of Rochambeau |
| Owner: | CGT |
| Ordered: | 1908 |
| Builder: | Chantiers & Ateliers de St Nazaire |
| Decommissioned: | 1934 |
| Struck: | 1936 |
| Homeport: | Le Havre |
| Fate: | scrapped 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 12,678 |
| Length: | 598 ft (182 m) |
| Beam: | 63 ft 4 in (19.30 m) |
| Capacity: | 2,028 |
The SS Rochambeau was a French Transatlantic ocean liner.
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 "à classe unique" ("unique class") of liners commissioned by the Compagnie générale transatlantique. Entering service in 1911, she was a larger version of the 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 the France having been requested as a hospital ship during World War I. Refitted in 1926, she was scrapped in Dunkirk in 1934.
See also
References
- Translated from the equivalent French article
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