La Lorraine (ship)
 The identical sister ship La Savoie
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The La Lorraine was a transatlantic passenger steamer put into service in 1900 by the French shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She and her sister ship La Savoie were the first CGT ships with a volume of over 10,000 gross tons and the largest ships under the French flag in the first years of the 20th century.
history
The steamship La Lorraine was built at the Chantiers & Ateliers de Penhoët shipyard in Saint-Nazaire and was launched on September 20, 1899. The 171.63 meter long and 18.29 meter wide ship was propelled by four-cylinder triple expansion steam engines that developed 22,000 hp and allowed a top speed of 21.5 knots. The planned average cruising speed was 20 knots. The steamer could carry 446 passengers in first class, 116 in second and 552 in third class. The La Lorraine had an identical blue sister ship , the La Savoie (also 11,168 GRT), which was launched six months after her at the same shipyard. The two ships had two masts , two red and black funnels and two propellers and were the first ocean liners in the CGT fleet with a tonnage of over 10,000 GRT. They were only surpassed in size by La Provence (13,752 GRT), which was commissioned in 1906 . The two fast and luxurious ocean liners were built to carry passengers and mail from Le Havre across the North Atlantic to New York .
On August 11, 1900, the La Lorraine left for her maiden voyage to New York. In March 1905 it was equipped with wireless radio technology. On July 17, 1909, the French President Armand Fallières inaugurated a new landing stage in the port of Le Havre. The La Lorraine was the first ship to leave this quay.
On July 25, 1914, she laid out for her last civilian voyage on the North Atlantic route. On August 12, 1914, the ship was put into service with the French Navy as an auxiliary cruiser and was given the new name Lorraine II . In the following war years she patrolled under the command of Ernest Louis Antoine Maurras between Italy and Tunisia and from 1915 also in the Adriatic . At the beginning of 1916, La Lorraine and La Savoie took part in the transport of a total of 46,000 Serb soldiers from Corfu to Thessaloniki . In 1917 it was converted into a troop transport . On September 25, 1917, the ship was retired from the Navy and was given its original name. In November 1917, La Lorraine brought General Joseph Joffre and the politician René Viviani to New York for peace talks.
From May 1918 to January 19, 1919, the La Loraine operated between Bordeaux and New York, until it left for the first time on the Le Havre – New York route on February 22, 1919. In May 1922, the passenger accommodations were modified so that from then on there was only cabin class and third class. On October 1, 1922, the La Lorraine left Le Havre for her last Atlantic crossing to New York. In December 1922, the former pride of the CGT in Penhoët near Saint-Nazaire was scrapped.