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cargo ship ANDRé CHéNIER
Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, 1919 - 1921 
Design features
type : ......................cargo ship
detailed type : .............cargo-passenger ship
hull material : .............
type of propeller : .........1 propeller
building year : .............1899
name of shipyard : ..........Sunderland Shipbuilding Company
place of shipyard : .........Sunderland
sister ship(s) : ............Le Myre de Villers
previous name(s) : ..........
Wilcannia (Blue Anchor Line [Grande-Bretagne], 1899-1913),
Shinkoku Maru (?, 1913-1919),
Dumont D'Urville (Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes, 1919-1921)
service life in the company :1919 / 1921
launching : .................
crew : ......................
passengers : .................34 passagers de 1ere classe, 40 passagers de 3eme
length : ....................126,00 meters
width : .....................14,40 meters
gross tonnage : .............5295 tx
net tonnage : ...............3100 tx
deadweight : ................7934
displacement : ..............10600
engine type : ...............machine alternative à triple expansion
power hp : ..................4000cv
power hp usual : ............
speed : .....................13 n
lines : ....................
remarks : ..................
withdrawal from service : ..Démolition en Italie en décembre 1925
subsequent names : .........
History
Cargo and passenger vessel, twin of the LE MYRE DE VILLERS built in 1899 by Sunderland S.B. Co. for Blue Anchor Line under the name of WIMCANNIA and assigned to the line England-South Africa-Australia. Transferred to P & O in 1910 during acquisition of the company, then sold to a Japanese shipowner Goshi Kaisha Kisimoto Shokwai and renamed SHINKOKU MARU. Bought by the French State in 1917 to replace the losses of war, placed under management with MESSAGERIES MARITIMES and renamed DUMONT D'URVILLE. Acquired in 1919, reconditioned and assigned to the secondary line Sydney-Noumea-New Hebrides. On return to Marseille in 1921, she is transformed for being used on the line of Levant and renamed in December 1921 ANDRE CHENIER. In March 1924 the crew refuses to sail because the ship transports 500 tons of gasoline. The leaders are condemned to twenty days of prison with deferment. Sold to the demolition in La Spezia in February 1925.