Category:Mexique (ship, 1915)
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See also category: Lafayette (ship, 1915).
Ship
[edit]- Type: Ocean liner / hospital ship / troop transport
- Built by: Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence, Marseilles
- Yard No: 77
- Keel laid:
- Launched: 1914.05.27
- Completed: 1915.06.03
- Length over all: 171.6 m
- Beam: 18.9 m
- GRT: 12220
- DWT:
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History
[edit]- Built as Île de Cuba
- 1915 Named Lafayette; Flag: France
- Call sign: OKYN
- Port: St. Nazaire
- Owner: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
- 1917.01 Requisitioned by French government
- Converted to hospital ship at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Gironde à Bordeaux, later used as troop ship
- 1919 Returned to owner
- 1928 Renamed Mexique; Flag: France
- Call sign: OKYN, from 1934 FNSS
- Port: St. Nazaire
- Owner: Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
- 1939.09 Requisitioned by French government as auxiliary cruiser
- 1940.06.19 Sunk by mine near Le-Verdon-Sur-Mer
Media in category "Mexique (ship, 1915)"
The following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total.
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Bateau le MEXIQUE.jpg 880 × 528; 111 KB
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Photo du paquebot Mexique (1928-40).jpg 1,018 × 669; 529 KB
Categories:
- Ships built in 1915
- Ships built in France
- Ships of Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
- Ships registered in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique)
- Auxiliary cruisers of France
- World War II cruisers of France
- Passenger ships of France
- Steamships of France
- Ships sunk in 1940
- Ships sunk by mines
- Shipwrecks in the North Atlantic
- Ocean liners by name
- Ships named after Mexico