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SS ''Patria'' was an French ocean liner built in 1913 for Compagnie française de Navigation à vapeur Cyprien Fabre & Cie (Fabre Line), for whom she was first a transatlantic liner and then an emigrant ship. From 1932 Fabre Line leased her to Services Contractuels des Messageries Maritimes, who ran her between the south of France and the Levant. After the fall of France in June 1940 the British authorities in Mandatory Palestine seized her in the Port of Haifa and placed her under the management of the British-India Steam Navigation Company. In November 1940 the Zionist movement planted a bomb aboard which sank her with the loss of between 260 and 300 lives. the goal was to exceed the number allowed by the Britains of immigrants to Palestine that year ''Patria'' remained a wreck in Haifa port until she was scrapped in 1952 . ==With Fabre Line== Fabre Line ordered ''Patria'' and her sister ship from Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée〔 of La Seyne-sur-Mer,〔 near Toulon. ''Patria'' had seven decks〔 and three funnels, but one of the funnels was a dummy.〔 ''Patria'' had nine boilers feeding two three-cylinder triple expansion steam engines.〔 The cylinder bores were 30.4" (high pressure), 49.36" (medium pressure) and 70.55" (low pressure), all with a stroke of 51.2". The engines gave ''Patria'' a total of 900 NHP and propelled the ship by twin screws.〔 ''Patria'' had direction finding equipment〔 and was the first ocean liner to be equipped with a cinema.〔 ''Patria'' was launched on 11 November 1913〔〔 and entered Fabre Line service on 15〔 or 16〔 April 1914. ''The New York Times'' reported that a German submarine attacked her on 1 March 1916 off the coast of Tunis. There is no naval record of such an attack, so it is not clear what incident may have taken place. However, the captian of the ship at the time, Pierre Deschelles, stated in an affidavit that while he didn't see the German submarine, members of the crew and many passengers did. She plied as a transatlantic liner between Marseille and New York from then until 1920, when she and ''Providence'' were reassigned to carrying emigrants to New York from Naples, Palermo and Marseille.〔 After the Wall Street Crash of 1929 Messageries Maritimes withdrew ''Patria'' from the emigrant trade in 1930,〔 although ''Providence'' continued to carry emigrants until 1932.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Patria (1913)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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