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Name | SS Bretagne |
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Builder | Penhoet Company, Saint-Nazaire |
Launched | 20 July 1951 |
Maiden voyage | 14 February 1952 |
Renamed | SS Brittany, 1962 |
Fate | Destroyed by fire at Skaramagas, 8 April 1963. Scrapped in Italy. |
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Tonnage | 16,335 GRT |
Length | 177 m (580 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 22 m (72 ft 2 in) |
Propulsion | Single-reduction gear steam turbine, twin screws |
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SS Bretagne was an ocean liner launched on 20 July 1951 out of Saint-Nazaire; the second of two ships built for the Société Générale de Transport Maritimes (SGTM) which operated passenger lines out of Marseilles. Her sister ship Provence was launched a year earlier at Newcastle. Bretagne was constructed with three boilers and Provence with only two, making Provence less capable of increasing speed to counteract possible delays.