The ship was in the 1939 shipyard Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in Le Havre to put Kiel . It was to serve the passenger ferry service across the English Channel on the Dieppe-Newhaven line for the SNCF . During the occupation of France in June 1940, the unfinished ship fell into German hands at the shipyard. The Navy confiscated it and intended to have it completed as a mine ship under the name Vichy . However, a lack of material due to the war prevented further construction. The ship was returned after the war ended in 1945 with France and the SNCF, was then built and ran on March 5, 1946, the name of Arromanches from the stack .
The Arromanches then ran from August 1947, together with the Londres , until 1963 on the Dieppe-Newhaven line. In 1964 she was sold to the shipping company Nomikos Lines in Greece and renamed Leto . The Leto sailed on the Piraeus - Tinos - Mykonos route . On October 25, 1970, the stern of the ship was thrown against the quay wall of the port of Tinos in a storm, with the rudder and the left screw and shaft being destroyed. The ship was towed to Syros , but after an assessment of the damage it was declared total loss. The ship was laid up in Eleusis and scrapped there between December 1972 and July 1973.
↑ The sister ship under construction at the same shipyard, the later Londres , was also spoiled by the Navy and served as a mine ship until 1945 under the name Lorraine .
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