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Naval / patrol

SS France

IMO 5603301Built 1912

Operated by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

Photo: Photographer for the Byron Company (New York, N.Y.) · Public domain · file

No gross tonnage is recorded for this vessel, so it cannot be ranked by size. Rank is only shown where the underlying measurement exists.

In brief

About SS France

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SS France was a French transatlantic liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT), known as "French Line". She was later nicknamed "Versailles of the Atlantic", a reference to her décor which reflected the famous palace outside Paris. Ordered in 1908, she was introduced into the Transatlantic route in April 1912, just a week after the sinking of RMS Titanic, and was the only French liner among the famous four-funnel liners (the "four stackers"). France quickly became one of the most popular ships in the Atlantic. Serving as a hospital ship during World War I, France would have a career spanning two decades. Her overall success encouraged CGT to create even larger liners in the future.

Quoted from SS France (1910) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Vessel particulars

Identification and dimensions

Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.

Identification

IMO number: 5603301
IMO check digit: Does not validate

In context

How SS France compares

Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

SS France was built in 1912, making it 114 years old. It is one of 60 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 2,320 GT. Across the whole of the 1910s the registry holds 482 vessels, median 1,868 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 123 vessels to Chantiers de l'Atlantique, with a median tonnage of 63,786 GT, delivered between 1912 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 5603301 this registry holds 15 other vessels, whose median build year is 1912 and which range from 1907 to 1914. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 1912.

Its IMO number, 5603301, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 5×7 + 6×6 + 0×5 + 3×4 + 3×3 + 0×2 = 92 — and the last digit of that total, 2, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does not, so this number as recorded does not validate; it is shown here as held rather than silently corrected.

Nearest by IMO number

Ship	IMO	Built
IMO 5603281	5603281	—
Jutlandia	5603329	1912
Rolandseck	5603402	1912
Sverige	5603199	1908

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.

Written summaryQuoted from SS France (1910) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

PhotographBy Photographer for the Byron Company (New York, N.Y.), reused under Public domain.

All naval / patrols Built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique Compagnie Générale Transatlantique