cargo ship CAROLINE

Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, 1908 - 1929

History

Second of a series of three ships designed for the transport of the emigrants. Sisterships : FLORIDE (1907), TEXAS (1908). Brought into service in December 1908. Used on the lines of the North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. August 18, 1917, repulses an attack of submarine by gunfire. After the World War one, used in the Baltic sea then on the Bordeaux-Casablanca line. In 1929 is renamed JACQUES CARTIER. Used as training ship for the officers of Company, to replace the first ship of the same name, herself renamed WINNIPEG. Laid up in Brest in December 1931. Demolished in Genoa in 1934.