&sq=&lang=&file=File:Paquebot_Flandre_(1914-40).jpg) Flandre in CGT colours
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| History | |
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| Name | Flandre |
| Namesake | Flanders |
| Owner | CGT |
| Operator |
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| Port of registry | Saint-Nazaire |
| Route | |
| Builder | Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St-Nazaire |
| Launched | 13 October 1913 |
| Completed | 1914 |
| Maiden voyage | 21 May 1914 |
| Refit | 1917, as hospital ship |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sunk by mine, 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Ocean liner |
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| Decks | 5 |
| Installed power | 12,000 hp |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h) |
| Sensors and processing systems | by 1926: wireless direction finding |
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SS Flandre was a French transatlantic ocean liner of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. (CGT). She was launched in 1913 and sunk in 1940. Her peacetime route was between France and ports in the Caribbean.
During and after the First World War, Flandre was a hospital ship and then a troop ship. In the Second World War she was a troop ship again. German forces captured her when France capitulated in 1940, but she was sunk less than three months later when she struck a mine.
In June 1939 Flandre took to the Caribbean 310 Jews who had fled Nazi Germany, German-occupied Austria and occupied Czechoslovakia. Both Cuba and Mexico refused admission to 104 of them, who were then sent back to France. Many were later murdered in the Shoah.