SAINTE JEANNE D'ARC hospital vessel

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SAINTE JEANNE D'ARC hospital vessel

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:00 pm

Built as a hospital ship by Atel. & Chant. De Bretagne, Nantes for Société des Ouevres de Mar at Le Havre, France.
1914 Launched as the SAINTE JEHANNE.
Tonnage 841 gross, 319 net, dim. 173.2 x 28.0 x 21.3ft.
One triple expansion steam engine manufactured by shipsbuilder, 65 nhp, speed 11 knots.
Crew 27-29.
07 May 1914 in service.

Hospital vessel for the French fishing fleet in the North Atlantic.
17 March 1920 renamed in SAINTE JEANNE D”ARC, following the canonization of Jeanne D’ Arc.

29 October 1935 sold to an English shipbreaker and broken up 4th quarter of 1935.

Saint Pierre et Miquelon 1971 35f sg492, scott409

Source: Historical Sketches of Watercraft on stamps volume 4. Register of Merchant vessels built in 1914.
Lloyds Register.
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