SS L'Atlantique
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SS L'Atlantique was a French ocean liner owned by the Compagnie de Navigation Sud Atlantique, a subsidiary of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). When completed in 1931 she was the largest, swiftest and most luxurious ocean liner on the route between Europe and South America.
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France | |
Name | L'Atlantique |
Owner | Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique |
Operator | Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique |
Port of registry | Bordeaux |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët |
Yard number | P6 |
Laid down | 28 November 1928 |
Launched | 15 April 1930 |
Completed | 7 September 1931 |
Maiden voyage | 29 September 1931 |
Identification | code letters ORWF |
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General characteristics | |
Type | Ocean liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | |
Beam | 92.0 ft (28.0 m) |
Draught | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
Depth | 57.6 ft (17.6 m) |
Decks | 4 |
Installed power | 45,000 SHP |
Propulsion | four sets of triple-expansion steam turbines driving four screws |
Speed | 21 kn (39 km/h) |
Capacity |
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Complement | 663 |
Sensors and processing systems | wireless direction finding |
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Her career was cut short by a fire in 1933 that gutted much of the ship and killed 19 of her crew. She was scrapped in Scotland in 1936.