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Rue du Chateau | Village de Malans, pres de Pesmes, 70140 Malans, France

The SS Île de France was a French ocean liner that was built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique . The ship was christened in 1926, and commenced her maiden voyage on June 22, 1927. It was the first major ocean liner built after the conclusion of World War I, and was the first liner ever to be decorated almost entirely with modern designs associated with the Art Deco style. She was neither the largest ship nor the fastest, but was considered the most beautifully decorated ship built by CGT being the favored ship of the pre-World War II era, carrying young, wealthy, and fashionable Americans to Europe and back. Ironically, all of the ship's luxurious fittings were removed for conversion into a prison ship during World War II. After the war, Île de France resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956, she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS Andrea Doria after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS Stockholm off Nantucket. Her last hurrah came just before she was scrapped in 1959, starring in the movie The Last Voyage as a doomed ocean liner, and actually being partially sunk, while scenes were being filmed with actors playing their parts in the flooded ship. She was subsequently refloated, and taken to Japan to be scrapped. The movie was released in 1960.
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