MS Aramis

Teia Maru as a repatriation ship in 1943
History
Name	1932: Aramis 1940: X–1 1940: Aramis 1942: Teia Maru
Namesake	1932: Aramis
Owner	Messageries Maritimes
Operator	1940: French Navy 1942: Nippon Yusen Kaisha 1942: Japanese Navy
Port of registry	1932: Marseille 1942: Yokohama
Route	1932: Marseille – Suez – Far East
Builder	Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne
Launched	30 June 1931
Completed	1932
Commissioned	into French Navy, 1 March 1940
Recommissioned	into Japanese Navy, 20 November 1942
Decommissioned	from French Navy, 1 August 1940
Maiden voyage	21 October 1932
Identification	code letters ORNA (until 1933) call sign FOBP (1934 onward)
Fate	Sunk by torpedo, 1944
General characteristics
Class and type	"nautonaphte" ocean liner
Tonnage	17,357 GRT, 9,990 NRT
Length	543.5 ft (165.7 m)
Beam	69.6 ft (21.2 m)
Depth	33.6 ft (10.2 m)
Decks	4
Installed power	1932: 2,490 NHP, 11,000 shp (8,200 kW) 1935: 15,600 shp (11,600 kW)
Propulsion	2 × screws 2 × two-stroke diesel engines
Speed	1932: 16 knots (30 km/h) 1935: 19 knots (35 km/h)
Capacity	passengers: 196 × 1st class, 110 × 2nd class, 60 × 3rd class, 1,183 – 1,402 × "rationnaires"
Sensors and processing systems	wireless direction finding
Armament	as X-1: 8 × 138 mm (5.4 in) guns 2 × 75 mm (3.0 in) guns 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns 8 × machine guns
Notes	sister ships: Félix Roussel, Georges Philippar

MS Aramis was a Messageries Maritimes ocean liner that was launched in France in 1931. She was a sister ship of Félix Roussel and Georges Philippar. The three sisters were highly unusual in having square funnels. Aramis' interior was an Art Deco interpretation of Minoan design.

When France entered the Second World War, Aramis was converted into the armed merchant cruiser X-1. In August 1940 she was decommissioned. In 1942 Japan seized her under angary and renamed her Teia Maru (帝亜丸). She was a repatriation ship in 1943 and a troop ship in 1944, until a United States Navy submarine sank her. About 2,665 of her passengers and crew were killed.