Built at Penhoet, St. Nazaire as FRANCE Yard #G19 66,348 GRT 1,035 x 110.5 feet Quadruple Screw, geared CEM-Parsons geared turbines from builders 31, max 35.21 knots 160,000 shaft horsepower 407 First Class, 1,637 Tourist Class passengers When the SS FRANCE was launched by Madame Charles De Gaulle on May…
M.V. COHO: 50 YEARS OF RELIABLE SERVICE by Shawn J. Dake Published December 2009. Photo credits, all photos by Shawn J. Dake c.2009 unless otherwise stated. For an ocean-going vessel to reach the age of 50 is quite an accomplishment. To span a career of over five decades under the…
