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RETURN TO THE HOMEPAGE
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Welcome to our La Marseillaise website celebrating this remarkable ship. The Second World War was devastating for the world and many shipping lines lost ships to the war effort. Messageries Maritimes, based in Marseilles, and operating on the route to East Asia was no exception. The
same year as the war erupted, they had started construction on a ship.
But as the war slowed work down, the ship was
not launched until 1944, during the war. The name for the ship used
during
the launching ceremonies was Maréchal
Pétain. Delayed
by the war she was completed in 1949, during
this time, the ship had been renamed La
Marseillaise. At 17,000 gross tons, La Marseillaise
was not a very
impressive ship, compared with the great transatlantic liners, but she
was
still the largest French ship to enter service since 1939. This
website aims to record the history of this fine French ocean liner and
act as
a virtual home to honour and commemorate this fine ship. We hope you
enjoy this
website and when you leave we hope you will visit again soon.
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(c) Cruise Ship History Collection 2018 including www.thecunarders.co.uk A Edward Elliott