SS Paris was a French ocean liner built for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France. Although Paris was laid down in 1913, her launching was delayed until 1916, and she was not completed until 1921, due to World War I. When Paris was finally completed, she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons. While smaller in size compared to the RMS Aquitania, the Olympic-class or the Imperator-class ships and not intended to challenge the speed record of the Mauretania, the Paris, operated by the Cie Generale Transatlantique, was one of the finest liners put into service at the time.[1] She was 768 feet long, 86 feet beam and 60 feet deep. On 31 feet draught, she displaced 36,700 metric tons [2]
History
The Paris was intended to be the second of four new ocean liners which CGT entered into an agreement with the French government to build in November 1912.