LINER "ILE DE FRANCE" (*) COMPAGNIIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQU - Lot 692

LINER "ILE DE FRANCE" (*) COMPAGNIIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE. Collection of 20 "official CGT" postcards - Liner fittings: close-up of the ship at sea leaving Le Havre, promenade deck (2 views), first-class bedroom and dining room, small salon, library, the Guignol in the children's playroom, wooden horse carousel, mechanotherapy, gymnasium, theater, grand staircase, café, 2nd-class smoking room, 2nd-class salon, pigeon shooting, painted panel in the mixed salon, bronze sculpture in the mixed salon, full view of the mixed salon, conversation salon, grand salon (2 views).. (*) ILE DE FRANCE - 241 meters, 52,000 horsepower, 803 crew and 1,740 passengers in cabins - launched by the St Nazaire shipyards on March 14, 1927, on the Le Havre - New York route, the most modern and sophisticated floating palace of its time. Arts and comfort like the most famous palaces, the most beautiful liner of the Atlantic and the Roaring Twenties. A postal floatplane catapulted when the ship was 500 nautical miles off the coast - mail was delivered a day ahead of schedule. During WW2, she was requisitioned by the British for troop transport. For 4 years, she carried half a million soldiers. Returned to France on September 22, 1945. Modernized, she returned to service, her last voyage on November 1, 1958, to be replaced by the "FRANCE". The ship was destroyed in Osaka in 1959, after having been used for the filming of the movie "Panique à Bord".