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The Portugal (5,335 grt, 459 ft. long) was built in 1886 and intially placed on the route to La Plata.
From 1899 she sailed on the Mediterranean and later to the Black Sea area.
She was trapped in the Black Sea at the outbreak of WW1, became a Russian hospital ship and was sunk at Batum in 1916 by a German submarine.
She is seen above at La Joliette harbour basin in Marseilles. The building to the right is La Major cathedral built in the late 19th century.
Another postcard of a ship leaving La Joliette in Marseilles, this is not the Néra, rather the Dumbéa
(see Philippe Ramona's
page on the Dumbéa for the same photo with the correct name of the
ship).
The Dumbéa (5,695 grt, 480 ft. long) was built as the Brésil in 1889 for the Bordeaux-La Plata route.
She was renamed Dumbéa in 1903 when transferred to the route to Australia (and wore white hull during 1903-05). She was scrapped in 1928.
This is yet another postcard stating the wrong name of the ship. This is the Polynésien (again evidenced by Philippe Ramona's website;
his page on the Polynésien shows a postcard with the same photo though
with the correct name - incidentally published by the same company).
The Polynésien (6,363 grt, 502 ft. long) was built in 1890.
She sailed on routes to Australia and the Far East, and met her fate when torpedoed at Malta in 1918.
(PC published by H. Grimaud, Marseilles)
Built in 1892, the Ville de La Ciotat (6,631 grt, 499 ft. long), like the Polynésien, was also torpedoed
and sunk in the Mediterranean - in 1915 off Crete - and also sailed initially on the route to Australia.
(Messageries Maritimes official PC)
The Chili (6,375 grt, 486 ft. long) was put on the La Plata route in 1895.
She was transferred to Far East and Mediterranean routes in 1912
and was a troop transport during WW1.
Having survived the war she was sold for scrap in 1927.
(PC published by Bourelly, Marseilles)
The Atlantique (6,479 grt, 486 ft. long) of 1899, another ship built for Bordeaux-La Plata service, sailed on the route to the Far East from
1912.
She was extensively rebuilt after WW1 and renamed Angkor. She was eventually sold for scrap in 1933.
(Messageries Maritimes official PC)
The El Kantara (6,879 grt, 464 ft.long) was built in 1904-05 for the service to Indochina. She was broken up in 1926.
(PC published by H. Grimaud, Marseilles)
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