Category:Mexique (ship, 1915)

SS Mexique 

French transatlantic liner
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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