Name Rochambeau Owner CGT Decommissioned 1934 Beam 19 m | Namesake Count of Rochambeau Ordered 1908 Length 163 m | |
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Builder Chantiers & Ateliers de St Nazaire | ||
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 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.
References
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