Builders: Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, Le Havre 1931.
Propulsion type: twin-screw turbine
Owner: S.A.G.A of France
Service dates: 1931 - 1945
Tonnage: Gross 3047
Comments:
This picture comes from August 1938 and is from a Dufay colour transparency kindly supplied by Cyril Perrier, whose father took the picture at Calais. I am grateful to Cyril for allowing me to share this picture with you and also for the narrative relating to this steamer.
SAGA took over French vessels from the Chemin de Fer du Nord in 1921 and allied themselves with the Southern Rly to run the Dover-Calais route. Cote d'Azur undertook this service and had an uneventful career until 1940 when she was bombed and sunk at Dunkirk. She was raised by the Germans and renamed Elsass (II) but after war service for the Germans she was mined and sunk off Samso in1945.