PAQUEBOT ILE DE FRANCE ( * ) - collection of ten postcards, - Lot 695

PAQUEBOT ILE DE FRANCE ( * ) - collection of ten postcards, photo bromides from Editions de la Cigogne, clichés from Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Port view of the liner at sea and interior views of lounges: cabins, "Versailles" apartment, children's playroom, chapel, auditorium, smoking room, café de Paris... ( * ) - built in 1927 by the Penhoet / St Nazaire shipyard for the C.G.T., Le Havre to New York line. The ship has a mail floatplane that delivers mail a day ahead of schedule, as soon as the liner is 500 miles from the coast. Length 241 meters, 1786 passengers. Converted, requisitioned in 1940 by the British as a troop transport. Returned to France in 1945. Last voyage November 1, 1958. Sold to the Japanese company Yamamoto, she became the Furanzu Maru. The end of the liner provokes a scandal: it is used as the setting for a Hollywood film, "Panic on Board". For the purposes of the film, it was partially sunk in the Sea of Japan, its interior ransacked for explosive photography. At the end of filming, the ship was destroyed.