{"id":28244,"date":"2021-08-08T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=28244"},"modified":"2021-08-27T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T18:27:12","slug":"saudi-filipinas-1-1939-history-14","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=28244","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>LOI<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
15\/2\/1938<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
3\/1939<\/td>Fire onboard<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
8\/1939<\/td>Delivered to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, Bordeaux, France<\/td><\/tr>
19-20\/8\/1939<\/td>Inaugural cruise on English canal.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/1939<\/td>Planned Bordeaux – Buenos Aires service cancelled due to WW2. Laid up at St. Nazaire.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/9\/1939<\/td>She repainted in light gray and equipped at the rear with 2 90 mm cannons (Saint-\u00c9tienne 1892 model) and 4 anti-aircraft machine guns.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/1940<\/td>First mission as an auxiliary warship is to convoy to the Orkney Islands in April 1940 part of the expeditionary force destined for the Norwegian Campaign.<\/td><\/tr>
1-9\/6\/1940<\/td>She carries up to Halifax in Canada , 213 tons of gold reserves of the Bank of France that need to be protected to the Royal Bank of Canada in Ottawa.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/8\/1940<\/td>After the German occupation of France. Ship was take over by England and operated by Cunard-White Star Line. She was used as troopship. UK flag, Liverpool home port.<\/td><\/tr>
1940-1945<\/td>She operated between Canada – South Africa – Australia and South America.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/10\/1945<\/td>The ship returned to French command. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/1945<\/td>Painted back to original colors. <\/td><\/tr>
12\/4\/1946<\/td>Ship arrived first time in France after WW2. Used as troop ship. Delivered back to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, Bordeaux, France<\/td><\/tr>
1946-1956<\/td>Used as a troopship around the World.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/1\/1957<\/td>Laid up at Toulon for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
18\/9\/1957<\/td>Sold to Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen, W.Germany. <\/td><\/tr>
26\/9\/1957<\/td>Voyage from Brest to Germany.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/1\/1958-6\/1959<\/td>Rebuild by Bremer Vulkan shipyards. Build more passenger areas , new boilers. <\/td><\/tr>
23\/5\/1959<\/td>New name Bremen.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/7\/1959<\/td>Bremerhaven – Southampton – Cherbourg – New York service.<\/td><\/tr>
1960<\/td>Winter season cruises to Caribbean and South America<\/td><\/tr>
1965\/66<\/td>Refurbished by Werft des Norddeutschen Lloyds, Bremerhaven<\/td><\/tr>
1\/9\/1970<\/td>Owner merged with Hamburg-America Line and created Hapag-Lloyd Ag, Hamburg, W.Germany.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/7\/1971<\/td>Sold to International Cruises, Pireus, Greece (Chandris)<\/td><\/tr>
1\/1972<\/td>Delivered to new owner. New name Regina Magna.<\/td><\/tr>
19\/5\/1972<\/td>First cruise from Limassol, operated Chandris cruises.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/10\/1974<\/td>Laid up at Piraeus.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1977<\/td>Sold to Philippine Singapore ports Co. of Saudiarabia, Jeddah, Saudiarabia. New name Saudiphil 1.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/11\/1977<\/td>Arrived to Jeddah. Modified to accommodate 5000 Filipino workers.<\/td><\/tr>
1980<\/td>Sold to Philsimport International Ltd. Manila, Philippines. New name Saudi-Filipinas 1.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/6\/1980<\/td>Sunk in tow for scrapping in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. <\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History LOI Building contract Building started Keel laid 15\/2\/1938 Launch 3\/1939 Fire onboard Sea trial Second sea trial 8\/1939 Delivered to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, Bordeaux, France 19-20\/8\/1939 Inaugural cruise on English canal. 9\/1939 Planned … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":28232,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28244","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28244"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28259,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28244\/revisions\/28259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}