General Mangin
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The General Mangin was a passenger ship of the French shipping company Compagnie de Navigation Fraissinet et Cyprien Fabre , which was put into service in 1953 and was built for the liner service to the Congo . The ship stayed in service until 1969 and was subsequently resold and renamed several times. In 1985 it was scrapped in Chittagong in Bangladesh .
history
The General Mangin was built under the hull number R14 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire and was launched on July 9, 1952. After its delivery to the Cie. de Navigation Fraissinet et Cyprien Fabre In March 1953, the ship began the liner service from Marseille to the Congo. The ship was named after the French general Charles Mangin .
The General Mangin was designed for possible use as a troop transport and could carry up to 500 men. In 1965 the ship became the property of the Nouvelle Cie de Paquebots and received a completely white hull painting with a black funnel, but remained unchanged in the liner service to the Congo. After a further four years of service, the General Mangin was retired in 1969 after the French government stopped co-financing the ship the previous year.
The new owner was the Greek shipping company Chandris , which was planning to convert the General Mangin into a cruise ship . Instead, however, the ship was in the same year as President of the Philippine Philippine President Lines to from now on scheduled services between the Philippines and Japan to be used. In the spring of 1972, however, the President was offered for sale again after almost three years of service.
In March 1972 the ship went to the Panama- based Cia. de Nav. Abeto SA, who renamed it Eastern Queen and used it after a renovation between Fremantle , Indonesia and Singapore . In the spring of 1973, the Eastern Queen received another modernization, but was not very successful and was therefore retired in July 1974. She then served as a pilgrim ship between Singapore and Chennai until 1977 .
In September 1977 the ship went under the name Hizbul Bahr to the Bangladeshi Shipping Corporation and was henceforth in service between Dhaka and Singapore. In February 1980 it switched to the route from Dubai via Colombo to Mumbai . In addition, the Hizbul Bahr was used as a troop transport for the Bangladeshi Navy. In December 1980, she completed her last crossing in order to be used as a stationary training ship under the name Shaheed Salahuddin in Chittagong.
After five years as a training ship for the Bangladeshi Navy, the Shaheed Salahuddin was sold to a demolition yard in Chittagong in 1985 and scrapped there.
The sister ship of General Mangin was the Jean Mermoz , which was commissioned in 1957 , which was converted for cruises after its retirement as a liner in 1970 and remained in service until it was scrapped in Alang in 2008.
Web links
- the ship on ssmaritime.com (English)
- the ship on simplonpc.co.uk (English)