History | |
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Panama | |
Name | Actor |
Owner | Neptune Shipping Limitada SA, Panama |
Port of registry | Panama |
Builder | Burmeister & Wain's Maskin & Skibsbyggeri A/S, Copenhagen |
Yard number | 627 |
Launched | 14 July 1937 |
Completed | September 1937 |
Fate | Sold to France 1938 |
History | |
France | |
Name | Languedoc |
Operator | Société Française de Transports Pétrolièrs (SFTP), Paris |
Port of registry | Le Havre |
Out of service | Seized by Britain in 1940 |
United Kingdom | |
Name | Languedoc |
Owner | Ministry of War Transport, London |
Operator | John I. Jacobs & Co Ltd, London |
Port of registry | Trinidad |
Fate | Sunk on 17 October 1940 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Motor tanker |
Tonnage | 9,512 GRT |
Crew | 39 |
MV Languedoc was a motor tanker that sailed under the French flag until World War II. She was taken over by the UK after the fall of France in 1940, sailed in a number of convoys, and was sunk by a German U-boat later that year.