MS Aramis
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MS Aramis was built for Messageries Maritimes
for their Europe-Asia colonial route. She was unusual in the fact that her funnels were square-shaped. She was 566 feet long, 69 feet wide and registered 17,537 gross tons. Her diesel engines helped her reach a cruising speed of 15 knots. She carried 1,045 passengers in first, second, third and steerage class.
She was used as an Allied merchant cruiser from 1939 to 1942. Seized by Japan
, she was renamed Teia Maru. On August 18, 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by an American
submarine near the Philippine islands.
Messageries Maritimes
The Messageries Maritimes is an old French maritime company. It was originally created in 1851 as Messageries Nationales, later called Messageries Impériales, and in 1871, Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes.-History:...
for their Europe-Asia colonial route. She was unusual in the fact that her funnels were square-shaped. She was 566 feet long, 69 feet wide and registered 17,537 gross tons. Her diesel engines helped her reach a cruising speed of 15 knots. She carried 1,045 passengers in first, second, third and steerage class.
She was used as an Allied merchant cruiser from 1939 to 1942. Seized by Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
, she was renamed Teia Maru. On August 18, 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
submarine near the Philippine islands.