SS Rochambeau
SS Rochambeau was a French Transatlantic ocean liner.Career
She was named after the Count of Rochambeau, a French nobleman and soldier who participated in the American Revolutionary War. The second of a "classe unique" of liners commissioned by the Compagnie générale transatlantique. Entering service in 1911, she was a larger version of which had entered service in 1908.
Between 1915 and 1918, she was part of a regular service between Bordeaux and New York City, the company's flagship having been requested as a hospital ship during World War I. Refitted in 1926, she was scrapped in Dunkirk in 1934.
