ANDRE LEBON and PATHOS
ANDRE LEBON – ON : 603470
Built 1915 by Messageries Maritimes , La Ciotat, France ( YN : 142) as ANDRE LEBON
GRT: 14368/ DWT: ??
Length (LPP): 154.9 metres x Beam : 18.8 metres
Service Speed 14.5 knots
Machinery: 2 shafts each driven by a quadruple expansion reciprocating steam engines, 12 coal-fired boilers until 1924, then oil-fired
History
1915: ANDRE LEBON : Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1922: ANDRE LEBON : Soc des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1948: ANDRE LEBON : Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1952: Broken up at La Seyne.
On commissioning in 1915 ANDRE LEBON was requisitioned as a troop transport, the first departure for Salonika on December 26, 1915. She also made postal trips on the Far East line. On July 11, 1916, in particular, she embarked in Hongay (Indochina) the 10th Battalion of Indochinese Tirailleurs, arriving in Marseille on August 16 after an uneventful journey. On 26 September 1916, she was converted into a hospital ship until 1918. On July 28, 1918, he embarked in Saigon several companies of various battalions of colonial troops, joined on July 19 in Shanghai by a Serbian detachment and on July 30 in Taku by two other companies of various colonial regiments, the whole forming the Siberian colonial battalion, which landed on August 9, 1918 in Vladivostok to take the Bolshevik troops from behind . ANDRE LEBON finished the war without incident, and resumed civilian activity in 1919 on the Marseille-Yokohama line. In 1919, while coaling in the harbour of Singapore, the ship suddenly heeled and water entered through the open ports. The vessel sank on a even keel as a result of the water that entering, fortunately in shallow water and it was possible to salvage the vessel and return back into service.
On September 1, 1923, she was in the harbour of Yokohama during the earthquake. Despite her boilers being worked on she managed to maneuver in such a way that it avoids the fire following the earthquake, and saves more than 1500 people who were able to board the ship.
In, 1936, sent for a refit.
In 1939, it was requisitioned and carried out various transports. He participated in particular during the summer of 1940, then in 1941, in the repatriation of French troops from Syria. Decommissioned at Marseille at the end of 1941. She was seized by the Germans on May 6, 1943 and transformed into barracks for a few months. Sunk in the port of Toulon on March 11, 1944 by American planes, ANDRE LEBON it was refloated the following year, repaired at La Seyne, and resumed the Far East line. Ran aground on 26 September 1948 on a sandbank at Cangio Point, but could be cleared, and on 20 October was the first ocean liner to visit Yokohama after the war. She was sold for scrapping at La Seyne in December 1952 after almost 40 years of service..
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PORTHOS – ON : 603795
Built 1915 by Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Bordeaux (?? YN) as PORTHOS
GRT: 12633 / DWT: 9340
Length (LPP): 155.7 metres x Beam : 18.8 metres
Service Speed 17.0 knots
Machinery: 2 shaft each driven by a triple-expansion steam engine with steam supplied by 9 coal-fired boilers
History
1922: PORTHOS : Soc des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1942: 8 Nov : Damaged by gunfire from USS MASSACHUSETTS while alongside at Casablanca
1945: Broken up
Launched 25 January 1914 in Bordeaux. Sister ship of ATHOS. Intended for the Marseille-Saigon-Haïphong line. Postal service during the war, without any particular incident. Served on the Far East Line until 1939. It made some rotations to Madagascar in 1939 and 1940. On September 23, 1940, hit by a 155 mm shell during the bombing of Dakar. She was finally sunk by gunfire on November 8, 1942 in Casablanca, when hit by by a salvo of 406 mm shells from the USS Massachusetts resulting in 26 deaths. This action was part of Operation Torch the landing in French North Africa.
ANDRE LEBON and PATHOS
ANDRE LEBON – ON : 603470
Built 1915 by Messageries Maritimes , La Ciotat, France ( YN : 142) as ANDRE LEBON
GRT: 14368/ DWT: ??
Length (LPP): 154.9 metres x Beam : 18.8 metres
Service Speed 14.5 knots
Machinery: 2 shafts each driven by a quadruple expansion reciprocating steam engines, 12 coal-fired boilers until 1924, then oil-fired
History
1915: ANDRE LEBON : Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1922: ANDRE LEBON : Soc des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1948: ANDRE LEBON : Cie des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1952: Broken up at La Seyne.
On commissioning in 1915 ANDRE LEBON was requisitioned as a troop transport, the first departure for Salonika on December 26, 1915. She also made postal trips on the Far East line. On July 11, 1916, in particular, she embarked in Hongay (Indochina) the 10th Battalion of Indochinese Tirailleurs, arriving in Marseille on August 16 after an uneventful journey. On 26 September 1916, she was converted into a hospital ship until 1918. On July 28, 1918, he embarked in Saigon several companies of various battalions of colonial troops, joined on July 19 in Shanghai by a Serbian detachment and on July 30 in Taku by two other companies of various colonial regiments, the whole forming the Siberian colonial battalion, which landed on August 9, 1918 in Vladivostok to take the Bolshevik troops from behind . ANDRE LEBON finished the war without incident, and resumed civilian activity in 1919 on the Marseille-Yokohama line. In 1919, while coaling in the harbour of Singapore, the ship suddenly heeled and water entered through the open ports. The vessel sank on a even keel as a result of the water that entering, fortunately in shallow water and it was possible to salvage the vessel and return back into service.
On September 1, 1923, she was in the harbour of Yokohama during the earthquake. Despite her boilers being worked on she managed to maneuver in such a way that it avoids the fire following the earthquake, and saves more than 1500 people who were able to board the ship.
In, 1936, sent for a refit.
In 1939, it was requisitioned and carried out various transports. He participated in particular during the summer of 1940, then in 1941, in the repatriation of French troops from Syria. Decommissioned at Marseille at the end of 1941. She was seized by the Germans on May 6, 1943 and transformed into barracks for a few months. Sunk in the port of Toulon on March 11, 1944 by American planes, ANDRE LEBON it was refloated the following year, repaired at La Seyne, and resumed the Far East line. Ran aground on 26 September 1948 on a sandbank at Cangio Point, but could be cleared, and on 20 October was the first ocean liner to visit Yokohama after the war. She was sold for scrapping at La Seyne in December 1952 after almost 40 years of service..
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PORTHOS – ON : 603795
Built 1915 by Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Bordeaux (?? YN) as PORTHOS
GRT: 12633 / DWT: 9340
Length (LPP): 155.7 metres x Beam : 18.8 metres
Service Speed 17.0 knots
Machinery: 2 shaft each driven by a triple-expansion steam engine with steam supplied by 9 coal-fired boilers
History
1922: PORTHOS : Soc des Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, Marseilles
1942: 8 Nov : Damaged by gunfire from USS MASSACHUSETTS while alongside at Casablanca
1945: Broken up
Launched 25 January 1914 in Bordeaux. Sister ship of ATHOS. Intended for the Marseille-Saigon-Haïphong line. Postal service during the war, without any particular incident. Served on the Far East Line until 1939. It made some rotations to Madagascar in 1939 and 1940. On September 23, 1940, hit by a 155 mm shell during the bombing of Dakar. She was finally sunk by gunfire on November 8, 1942 in Casablanca, when hit by by a salvo of 406 mm shells from the USS Massachusetts resulting in 26 deaths. This action was part of Operation Torch the landing in French North Africa.