Lafayette
1930
(Navis NM-911)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 25,178 tons
- Dimensions: 613 x 77 ft.
- Machinery: M.A.N. diesels, twin screw, 18,000 BHP = 17 knots
- Passengers: 1079 (583 cabin class, 388 tourist class, 108 third class)
- Crew: 472
- Builder: Chantiers de l'Atlantique (Penhoet), St. Nazaire, France, 1930
- Service: Built for the French Line's Le Havre-New York service. France's largest passenger motorship. Maiden voyage 17 May 1930. While being overhauled at Le Havre 4 May 1938, Lafayette caught fire and was completely destroyed. Wreckage scrapped at Rotterdam.
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