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MM Page 4: 1940-

 

 

This page is one of a series devoted to postcards and photographs of the Messageries Maritimes (MM). An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. Below this is a Fleet List in chronological order. There is a table of individual ship histories on the MM Header Page.

 

 

Ships on This Page:-

Viet-Nam (1952-67) - later Pacifique (2)

Pacifique (2) (1967-70) - ex-Viet-Nam

Cambodge (2) (1953-70)

Laos (3) (1954-69)

La Bourdonnais (2) (1953-68)

Ferdinand de Lessops (1952-68)

Pierre Loti (2) (1953-70)

Jean Laborde (2) (1953-70)

Caledonien (2) (1952-71)

Tahitien (1953-71)

Pasteur (1966-72)

Skaugum (19??-??)

 

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Skaugum (19??-??)

 

MM issued an official postcard of Skaugum. Skaugum had been launched in 1940 as the fast cargo liner Ostmark for HAPAG. She was laid up incomplete through the war, and taken by the British in 1945 as a war prize. In 1948 she was sold by the British Ministry of Transport to I.M.Skaugen, who had her rebuilt as an emigrant carrier by her builders in Kiel. Skaugum was completed in April 1949, and entered service between genoa and Australia. Messageries Maritimes acted as agents in Australia, and maybe elsewhere, and issued an official postcard of Skaugum. She was also used for French trooping duties to Indo-China, maybe under MM management. Neither really explains the issue of the postcard, and the MM histories I have seen do not mention her. In 1957 Skaugum was rebuilt as a pure cargo ship, and was sold in 1964 as the Ocean Builder of Ocean Shipping & Enterpises (Monrovia). She was broken up in 1972.

 

Daniel Baccara writes:- Skaugum was chartered for M.M. about 1948/52 as trooper for Indochine. This postcard is very rare.

 

René Delétroz writes: I have just discovered your site and can add a few words to the Skaugum story... for what they are worth!

I worked with Messageries Maritimes in Sydney from 1955 to 1960. Sydney was then the General Office for Australia and the South Pacific. The company was acting as agent for the Skaugum and her sister ship the Skaubryn, which as you know sank in the Indian Ocean after a fire in the engine room. Both ships made several trips during this period, bringing migrants from Europe. If you check http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dominique.pageswebs/coree/coree.htm, you will also note that the Skaugum was used to transport French troops during the Korean war.

 

Pierre Blasi writes:- I remember with certainty that the Skaugum repatriated French soldiers, who had been prisoners of war in Indo-China (Vietnam), to Marseilles around 1954.

 

 

Official MM postcard of Skaugum.

The writer has just boarded the ship in Marseille, on 6th February 1954.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viet-Nam - Pacifique (2) (1952-70)

 

One of three sisters, Viet-Nam (1952-67), Cambodge (2) (1953-70) and Laos (3) (1954-69).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cambodge (2) (1953-70)

 

One of three sisters, Viet-Nam (1952-67), Cambodge (2) (1953-70) and Laos (3) (1954-69).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laos (3) (1954-69)

 

One of three sisters, Viet-Nam (1952-67), Cambodge (2) (1953-70) and Laos (3) (1954-69).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

La Bourdonnais (2) (1953-68)

 

One of four sisters:- La Bourdonnais (2) (1953-68), Ferdinand de Lessops (1952-68), Pierre Loti (2) (1953-70), Jean Laborde (2) (1953-70)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ferdinand de Lessops (1952-68)

 

One of four sisters:- La Bourdonnais (2) (1953-68), Ferdinand de Lessops (1952-68), Pierre Loti (2) (1953-70), Jean Laborde (2) (1953-70)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pierre Loti (2) (1953-70)

 

One of four sisters:- La Bourdonnais (2) (1953-68), Ferdinand de Lessops (1952-68), Pierre Loti (2) (1953-70), Jean Laborde (2) (1953-70)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean Laborde (2) (1953-70)

 

One of four sisters:- La Bourdonnais (2) (1953-68), Ferdinand de Lessops (1952-68), Pierre Loti (2) (1953-70), Jean Laborde (2) (1953-70)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calédonien (2) (1952-71)

 

One of two sisters:- Caledonien (2) (1952-71), Tahitien (1953-71)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tahitien (1953-71)

 

One of two sisters:- Caledonien (2) (1952-71), Tahitien (1953-71)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pasteur (1966-72)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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