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27-558: MS Aramis was a Messageries Maritimes ocean liner that was launched in France in 1931. She was a sister ship of Félix Roussel and Georges Philippar . The three sisters were highly unusual in having square funnels . Aramis ' interior was an Art Deco interpretation of Minoan design. When France entered the Second World War , Aramis was converted into the armed merchant cruiser X-1 . In August 1940 she

54-470: A halt, and the container found its way into the freight sector, which required a completely new type of ship with the container ship . In 1972 all liner services were discontinued and they were replaced by global container services. In 1977 the French Government proceeded with merging its two state-controlled shipping lines, i.e. Compagnie générale transatlantique and Messageries Maritimes, into

81-1097: A single one named Compagnie générale maritime . Chantier naval de La Ciotat Look for Chantier naval de La Ciotat on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Chantier naval de La Ciotat in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

108-517: A terrestrial carrier company, the Messageries nationales , to merge to create a shipping company, first called Messageries nationales , then Messageries impériales , and finally in 1871 the Compagnie des messageries maritimes . Two engineers, Henri Dupuy de Lôme and Armand Béhic joined the company, encouraging the purchase of the shipbuilding yards of La Ciotat in 1849. In the beginning

135-693: The Burma Railway . 300 of these POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 6 in Orio , 350 POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 21 in Nakama , 100 Dutch POWs were sent to Fukuoka Camp 9 Miyata , and 250, including 150 Australian POWs, were assigned to work in Mitsui coal mines at PW Fukuoka Camp 17 in Ōmuta . On 10 August 1944 Teia Maru left Imari Bay carrying 5,478 soldiers and civilians. Most of her military passengers were Imperial Japanese Army Air Service personnel. She

162-632: The Gulf of Aden with the loss of 54 lives. The ship was named after Georges Philippar the CEO of the company. During the Second World War, most of the company's fleet were laid up in port, but as the war continues most of the ships were sank or Commission by other navy which had been split between the Allies and Vichy France . and by 1945 the decimated the fleet only 21 ships were left. The Far East

189-580: The South China Sea . On 22 June 1940 France capitulated to Germany and Italy . On 1 August 1940 Aramis returned to Saigon and was disarmed and returned to her owners. In January 1942 became a barracks ship in Saigon. On 12 April 1942, Japan seized Aramis under angary . On 2 June her French crew was disembarked. Officially, Japan chartered Aramis and ten other Vichy French . Japan paid MM 168,346 yen per month for Aramis . On 2 June she

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243-677: The neutral Swedish Gripsholm arrived carrying 1,340 Japanese officials and businessmen and their families. They were exchanged for 1,270 US citizens, 120 Canadians, and 15 Chileans, plus as UK citizens, Panamanians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Cubans, Argentinians, and nationals from other Latin American countries. 48,670 Red Cross parcels for interned Allied civilians were transferred from Gripsholm to Teia Maru for Allied prisoners of war and interned civilians in Singapore, Manila and Japan. Teia Maru left Mormugao on 21 October and returned

270-600: The 1950s for routes across Europe and Africa to areas containing commercial or cultural interests for France's citizens. In the South Atlantic, the Brazil line went as far as Montevideo and Buenos Aires . Less important, and less known, its home port initially was Bordeaux , before it became Hamburg in its latter years. By the 1960s and 70s, as air travel became more popular, many companies’ passenger services, like those of Messageries Maritimes, were brought to

297-759: The Company operated on routes to the Middle East . Its ships were used as troopships during the Crimean War , and were so helpful for the army that the Emperor gave the company the right to operate on the Bordeaux – Brazil route as thanks. This was the first French transatlantic line equipped with steamers. The following year, the Société générale maritime (future Compagnie générale transatlantique ) received

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324-666: The French establishments in India . At Pondicherry the small harbour necessitated the use of ship's tenders . In 1912, the company lost its exclusive right to carry French mail on South American routes to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique . During the First World War, the company lost a large part of its fleet, as did most of the shipping companies of the Entente powers. After the war, an extensive new building programme

351-647: The North Atlantic knew the ships with the typical double funnel, which worked the route London – Dunkirk – Le Havre – Marseille. In the Middle East, the ports of call were Malta , Alexandria , Port Said , Beirut , Syria , Smyrna , Constantinople , and the Black Sea . In the Indian Ocean , the line served Mahé, Seychelles , La Réunion , Mauritius , Zanzibar and Madagascar as well as

378-838: The North Atlantic lines. From 1871 to 1914 the company saw its golden age. This was the period of French colonial expansion and of interventionism in the Middle and Far East . The Marseille liners continuously served in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, then the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, the China Sea and finally the Pacific Ocean. In the west, the South Atlantic line filled out. Ships of this line were some of

405-626: The first large vessels to be fitted with the new water-tube boilers , specifically the large-tube Belleville boiler . Their performance was of such interest to the British Royal Navy that the Jerseyman Edouard Gaudin, who could pass for French, was sent to investigate their use. His report was an influence on their fitment to new ships, the Powerful -class cruisers HMS  Powerful & Terrible . Even

432-706: The repatriated Japanese to Yokohama on 14 November. On 1 January 1944 the Japanese Navy requisitioned Teia Maru again, this time as a troop ship. She sailed to Singapore with convoy Hi-41 in February 1944, and returned to Japan with convoy Hi-48 in March. She sailed again to Singapore with convoy Hi-63 in May 1944, and returned to Japan in June carrying about 1,000 Australian, British, Dutch, and other PoWs who had worked on

459-488: The usual 19th- and early 20th-century de luxe styles. In this case the designers went on a research trip to Crete . The "Neo-Aegean" design, based on Sir Arthur Evans ' reconstructions at Knossos mixed with Art Deco, received much publicity. Tours of the ship were arranged at ports she visited on her maiden voyage. The ship had twin screws , each driven by a French-built Sulzer ten-cylinder single-acting two-stroke diesel engine . The combined power of her twin engines

486-488: Was 543.5 ft (165.7 m), her beam was 69.6 ft (21.2 m)and her depth was 33.6 ft (10.2 m). Her tonnages were 17,357  GRT and 9,990  NRT . She had berths for 196 passengers in first class , 110 in second class, 60 in third class, and 1,183 to 1,402 "rationnaires". The ship's Minoan décor was part of a programme by MM's President, Georges Philippar , to give MM's ships unusual revivalist décors from various ancient cultures, to get away from

513-957: Was decommissioned. In 1942 Japan seized her under angary and renamed her Teia Maru ( 帝亜丸 ) . She was a repatriation ship in 1943 and a troop ship in 1944, until a United States Navy submarine sank her. About 2,665 of her passengers and crew were killed. Between 1929 and 1932 Messageries Maritimes (MM) had three new ocean liners built for its routes between France and the Far East. Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire launched Félix Roussel in 1929 and Georges Philippar in 1930. The Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée in La Seyne-sur-Mer launched Aramis on 30 June 1931 and completed her in October 1932. Aramis ' registered length

540-408: Was one of several ships torpedoed that night. She sank at position 18°16′N 120°21′E  /  18.267°N 120.350°E  / 18.267; 120.350 , killing 2,665 of her passengers and crew. [REDACTED] Media related to Teia Maru at Wikimedia Commons Messageries Maritimes In 1851 a ship owner from Marseille , Albert Rostand, proposed to Ernest Simons, director of

567-594: Was part of convoy Hi-71 carrying Operation Shō reinforcements to the Philippines. On 17 August the convoy entered the South China Sea from Mako naval base in the Pescadores . USS  Redfish discovered the convoy that evening, and assembled USS  Rasher , Bluefish and Spadefish for a radar -assisted wolfpack attack in typhoon conditions on the night of 18–19 August. Teia Maru

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594-509: Was rated at 2,490 NHP or 11,000  shp (8,200 kW), and gave her a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h). MM registered Aramis at Marseille . Her code letters were ORNA. On 21 October 1932 Aramis left Marseille on her maiden voyage to Kobe via the Suez Canal . She called at Port Said , Djibouti , Colombo , Penang , Singapore , Saigon , Hong Kong and Shanghai . On 22 June 1933 Aramis ran aground on Zhoushan . She

621-542: Was refloated, and the French cruiser  Primauguet towed her to Japan. In 1934 the call sign FOBP superseded her code letters. In 1935–36 Aramis ' engines were supercharged . This increased her power to 15,600  shp (11,600 kW) and her speed to 19 knots (35 km/h). At the same time, Chantier naval de La Ciotat built her a new bow, which lengthened her by 30 feet (9 m). On 4 September 1939, work to convert Aramis into an armed merchant cruiser

648-985: Was renamed Teia Maru . Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Yokohama dry docked her from 5 July until 19 November. On 20 November 1942 the Imperial Japanese Navy requisitioned Teia Maru . From September 1943 she made voyages exchanging interned civilians with the Allies . On 14 September she left Yokohama on the second Japanese–US exchange voyage. She carried 80 US repatriates from Japan. She embarked about 975 repatriates at Shanghai on 19 September, 24 at Hong Kong on 23 September, 130 at San Fernando, Philippines on 26 September, 27 at Saigon on 30 September, and others at Singapore on 5 October. She reached Mormugao in Portuguese India , on 15 October 1943 carrying 1,525 priests, nuns, Protestant missionaries , and businessmen with their families who had been stranded in areas captured by Japan. On 19 October,

675-483: Was started in Saigon. She was armed with eight 138 mm (5.4 in) guns, two 75 mm (3.0 in) anti-aircraft guns, two 37 mm (1.5 in) anti-aircraft guns, and eight machine guns . On 20 January 1940 she left Saigon, and in February she reached Hong Kong, where she was dry docked . On 1 March she left dry dock, and was commissioned into the French Navy as auxiliary cruiser X-1 . She patrolled

702-535: Was started. The ship that were loss in the war were replaced by larger and more luxurious liners and the newly opened Panama Canal was added to the route network at the beginning of the 1920s. During this time, Georges Philippar was President of Messageries Maritimes. He was a great admirer of Alexandre Dumas and made sure that on every ship on the line there was something reminiscent of the writer; four ships were named after The Three Musketeers . In 1932, Georges Philippar caught fire on her maiden voyage and sank in

729-496: Was the private field of the company. Cambodge was the first of three new liners that modernised MM's Far East route in the 1950s. Saigon was rapidly becoming the second home port of the company. The "stationnaires" , ships of small tonnage, afforded to the local lines departed from there. They went to Hanoi , Yokohama , Hong Kong , Shanghai , Australia and New Caledonia . They had the largest fleet of ships under one flag, with nine combination passenger/cargo liners built in

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