page_title: SS Paris (1916)
section_title: Loss
hierarchical_section_title: SS Paris (1916) / Loss
caption_attribution_description: SS Europa sank after rammed into the capsized SS Paris at Le Havre.
context_page_description: SS Paris was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. The French Line's Paris was built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique of St. Nazaire. Although Paris was laid down in 1913, her launching was delayed until 1916, and she was not completed until 1921, due to World War I. When Paris was finally completed, she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons.
context_section_description: On 18 April 1939, Paris caught fire while docked in Le Havre and temporarily  blocked the new superliner Normandie from exiting dry dock. She capsized and sank in her berth where she remained until after World War II, almost a decade later.  A year after the war had ended, the 50,000-ton German liner Europa was handed over to the French Line as compensation for Normandie and renamed Liberté. While Liberté was being refitted in Le Havre, a December gale tore the ship from her moorings and threw her into the half-submerged wreck of Paris. She settled quickly, but in an upright position. Six months later Liberté was refloated and by spring 1947 she was in St. Nazaire for her final rebuilding. The wreck of Paris remained on the spot until 1947, when she finally was scrapped on site.
  Paris was one of the nearly a dozen French ships destroyed by fire during the 1930s and 1940s.
caption: Liberté after being deliberately sunk on an even keel, following her collision with the wreck of Paris, lying on her side top of picture
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