1925 S.S. PARIS Paper PROGRAMME Compagnie Generale Transatlantique French Line

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1925 S.S. PARIS Paper PROGRAMME Compagnie Generale Transatlantique French Line
6 1/4" x 4"
Luxury Liner "S.S. PARIS" Concert Symphonique
Sous La Direction M.M. Bonnety
Capitaine de Fregate, E. Maurras, o , Commandant
Mercredi 30 Septembre 1925
1. La Bohemienne
2. La Dame en Rose
3. Santa Lucia Luntana
4. Sylvia
5. Elegie
6. Paillasse
S.S. Paris Symphony Program for ship's entertainment on 30 September 1925.
SS Paris was a French ocean liner built for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique by Chantiers de l'Atlantiquein Saint-Nazaire, France. Although Paris was laid down in 1913, her launching was delayed until 1916, and she was not completed until 1921, due to World War I. When Paris was finally completed, she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons. Although not so large as the Olympic or Imperator ships and not intended to challenge the speed record of the Mauretania, the Paris, operated by the Cie Generale Transatlantique, was one of the finest liners put into service, at the time. She was 768 feet long, 86 feet beam and 60 feet deep. On 31 feet draught, she displaced 36,700 metric tons
On 18 April 1939, Paris caught fire while docked in Le Havre and temporarily blocked the new superliner Normandie from exiting dry dock. She capsized and sank in her berth where she remained until after World War II, almost a decade later. A year after the war had ended, the 50,000-ton German liner Europa was handed over to the French Line as compensation for Normandie and renamed Liberté. While Liberté was being refitted in Le Havre, a December gale tore the ship from her moorings and threw her into the half-submerged wreck of Paris. She settled quickly, but in an upright position. Six months later Liberté was refloated and by spring 1947 she was in St. Nazaire for her final rebuilding. The wreck of Paris remained on the spot until 1947, when she finally was scrapped on site.