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FIGHTING SHIPS OF THE WORLD
FRANCE
CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS
auxiliary cruisers of WWI


Ships


Name

Launched // Comm.

Builder

Tonnage, BRT

Dimensions, m

(length pp)

Speed, kts

Engine, Power hp

Armament

Fate

Amazone II (ex-Laos) 11.1896 // Messageries Maritimes, La Ciotat 6357 135.0x15.5 18 2turbines   unlisted 1919
Burdigala (ex-Kaiser Friedrich) 5.10.1897 // Schichau, Danzig, Germany 12480 177.3x19.4 19 2VQE   sunk 14.11.1916
Caledonien 6.1882 // Messageries Maritimes, La Ciotat 4233 126.2x12.6 15 1VC   sunk 30.6.1917
Carthage 25.4.1910 // Swan Hunter, Low Walker, UK 5601 122.8x15.6 19 2turbines   sunk 4.7.1915
Europe 4.1906 // A C de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire 4756 112.5x14.0 14 2turbines   troop transport 1915
Flandre 31.10.1913 // A C de Saint-Nazaire (Penhoët), Saint-Nazaire 8503 141.5x17.4 17 4VTEet   troop transport 1917
Gallia 1913 // F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne 14966 175.0x19.1 20 3VTEet   troop transport 1916
Golo II (ex-Golo) 11.12.1905 // Swan Hunter, Low Walker, UK 1380 80.2x10.5 17 1VTE 2-65, 2-47 sunk 22.8.1917
Lorraine II (ex-La Lorraine), 1917- La Lorraine 20.9.1899 // C Generale Transatlantique, Saint-Nazaire 11146 171.6x18.3 20 2VTE   unlisted 1919
Lutetia 23.3.1913 // A C de Saint-Nazaire (Penhoët), Saint-Nazaire 14581 176.5x19.5 20 4VTE/turbines   unlisted 1918
Newhaven 1910 // F C de la Méditerranée, Le Havre 1656 89.0x10.5 23.5 3turbines   unlisted 1919
Niagara (ex-Corse) 1908 // A C de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire 8481 147.9x17.1 15 2VTE   troop transport 1918
Provence II (ex-La Provence) 21.3.1905 // A C de Saint-Nazaire (Penhoët), Saint-Nazaire 13753 183.6x19.8 22 2VTE 5-139/45, 4-47 troop transport 1915
La Savoie 31.3.1900 // A C de Saint-Nazaire (Penhoët), Saint-Nazaire 11168 171.6x18.3 20 2VTE   troop transport 1915
Sant'anna 1910 // F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne 9350 143.3x17.2 16 2VTE   troop transport 1915
Timgad 1911 // A C de Provence, Port-de-Bouc 5232 122.6x15.7 18.5 2VTE   hospital ship 1915
La Touraine 23.3.1890 // C Generale Transatlantique, Saint-Nazaire 8893 158.5x17.1 19 2VTE   troop transport 1915


Project history

Passenger and cargo ships converted to armed merchant cruisers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Burdigala 14.11.1916 was mined off Kea Island (Kos Strait, Aegean). Caledonien was mined 30.6.1917 off Port Said on mine laid by German submarine UC34. Carthage was torpedoed 4.7.1915 off Gallipoli (W of Cape Helles) by German submarine U21. Golo II was torpedoed 22.8.1917 by German submarine UC22 off Corfu.