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![]() SS Paris in port
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Name | SS Paris |
Namesake | Paris, France |
Owner | Compagnie Générale Transatlantique |
Port of registry | Le Havre, France |
Route | Le Havre, France - New York, USA |
Builder | Penhoët, Saint Nazaire, France |
Laid down | 1913 |
Launched | 12 September 1916 |
Maiden voyage | 15 June 1921 |
In service | 15 June 1921 |
Refit | 1929 |
Stricken | 1939 |
Homeport | Le Havre, France |
Nickname(s) | "Aristocrat of the Atlantic" |
Fate | Caught fire, and capsized in Le Havre on 18 April 1939, Scrapped in 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | 34,570 GRT |
Displacement | 36,695 |
Length | 768 ft (234 m) |
Beam | 85 ft (26 m) |
Draft | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
Depth | 68 ft (21 m) |
Decks | 10 |
Propulsion | 4 Parson's Turbines 46,000 hp |
Speed | 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph) |
Range | 8,000 mi (13,000 km) radius |
Boats & landing craft carried | 54 Lifeboats, 1 Motorboat, 2 Service boats |
Capacity |
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Crew | 657 |
SS Paris was a French ocean liner built for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France. Although Paris was laid down in 1913, her launching was delayed until 1916, and she was not completed until 1921, due to World War I. When Paris was finally completed, she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons. Although not so large as the Olympic-class or the Imperator-class and not intended to challenge the speed record of the Mauretania, the Paris, operated by the Cie Generale Transatlantique, was one of the finest liners put into service, at the time.[1] She was 768 feet long, 86 feet beam and 60 feet deep. On 31 feet draught, she displaced 36,700 metric tons [2]