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- De Grasse
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- Empress of Australia - Venezuela
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to postcards and photographs of the CGT (French Line) Atlantic
liner De
Grasse of 1924.
De Grasse was laid down as Suffren
but renamed during a lengthy 4-year building period at Cammell,
Laird & Co, Birkenhead. She operated on the CGT Havre-New
York service until 1940, when seized by the Germans. De Grasse was sunk by gunfire at Bordeaux
on August 30th, 1944. De
Grasse was
raised and refitted, re-entering service with CGT on her old
route in 1947, now with only one funnel. She was transferred
to the Caribbean service in 1952, and sold to Canadian Pacific
as their Empress
of Australia
in 1953. The Empress
of Australia was bought by Grimaldi-SIOSA in
1956 and renamed Venezuela. Following rebuilding for their
Italy-West Indies-Venezuela service, her passenger capacity increased
from 664 to nearly 1500. Venezuela was lost in 1962, off Cannes.
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Grasse
- French Line (CGT) 1924-53
- Empress
of Australia
- Canadian Pacific 1953-56
- Venezuela - Grimaldi-SIOSA 1956-62
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- De Grasse (1)
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1924-40, 1947-53)
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- De Grasse was laid down as Suffren
but renamed during a lengthy 4-year building period at Cammell,
Laird & Co, Birkenhead. She operated on the CGT Havre-New
York service until 1940, when seized by the Germans. She was
sunk by gunfire at Bordeaux on August 30th, 1944. De Grasse
was raised and refitted, re-entering service with CGT on her
old route in 1945. She was transferred to the Caribbean service
in 1952, and sold to Canadian Pacific as their Empress of Australia in 1953.
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- CGT
official art card of De Grasse in orginal condition with
two funnels, whilst on the New York-Plymouth-Havre route.
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- CGT
official art card of De Grasse in orginal condition with
two funnels at new York.
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- A CGT
official sepia art card of De Grasse in orginal condition
with two funnels.
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- A CAP
(Strasbourg) postcard of De Grasse in orginal condition
with two funnels. UK port of call had moved to Southampton when
this card was issued.
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- Postcard
of De Grasse in orginal condition.
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- Postcard
of De Grasse in orginal condition.
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- De
Grasse
reappeared with only one funnel when refitted in 1947. This is
a USA printed card.
- "The
Longest Gangplank in the World".
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- Unidentified
French postcard of De Grasse creating impressive smoke
effects.
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is a CGT official card (printed Estel of Paris - serial 6103)
of De Grasse.
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- This
is a CGT official postcard of De Grasse.
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- Postcard
of De Grasse.
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- Empress of Australia
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Pacific: 1953-56)
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- De Grasse was sold to Canadian Pacific Lines
in 1953 to replace the Empress of Canada which was destroyed
by fire in Liverpool in january 1953. De Grasse was renamed Empress of Australia and operated
on the Liverpool-Montreal route.
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- Canadian
Pacific official sepia card of Empress of Australia.
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- A superb
Canadian Pacific official colour art card of Empress of Australia.
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card was posted from Quebec to the UK in 1955.
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- Plastichrome
colour postcard P12880 of Empress of Australia at Montreal.
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card was posted from Montreal to the UK in 1962.
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- Photographic
postcard of Empress of Australia.
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- Photographic
postcard of Empress of Australia.
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- Venezuela
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- The Empress of Australia was
bought by Grimaldi-SIOSA in 1956. Following rebuilding for their
Italy-West Indies-Venezuela service, her passenger capacity increased
from 664 to nearly 1500. Venezuela was lost in 1962, off
Cannes.
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- This
is a Fratelli Grimaldi - Sicula Oceanica S.A. postcard.
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- A later
Grimaldi-SIOSA card of Venezuela, showing the raked bow
given in 1960.
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- A further
Grimaldi-SIOSA card of Venezuela, showing the raked bow
given in 1960.
- Thanks
to Artura Braam for the scans.
- A full
career history of this ship is available on this link.
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