Fictional Story



The Saint Tropez is the sister ship of the Paris and was commissioned on 16 December 1887. She began her maiden voyage on 20 December 1887 and reached Vung Tau on 21 January 1888.

She had a relatively quiet life with a few minor accidents and incidents. In 1895, together with the Paris, she underwent her first modernisation, during which the aft well deck was closed, the sails removed and the ships repaired.
In 1899, the Sant Tropez encountered a strange ship between Singapore and Vung Tau. An officer sighted a battered Clipper with tattered sails drifting alone in the sea, which was strange as there had been no storms in the region that month. As they got closer to the ship, they couldn't see a soul on the ship through binoculars and although the ship looked from a distance as if it had withstood a storm for days, the deck was clean. The captain of the Saint Tropez wanted to investigate the cause more closely but was dissuaded from stopping the ship and investigating the other vessel further by the concern of his superstitious crew. It would later turn out that the Saint Tropez was the only ship that had ever sighted this Clipper.


To make the ageing ship more competitive again, the Saint Tropez was sent to the shipyard in 1900 for a major overhaul. The forward well deck was closed, the superstructure was enlarged to accommodate new cabins, the third class was adapted to the times and the entire interior was completely renewed.
In 1905 she was fitted with radio equipment.

At the beginning of 1906, the shipowner's board decided that the Saint Tropez should be replaced by a new building. The time had come in mid-1908. The Saint Tropez was decommissioned after almost 20 years, any furniture that could still be used was removed and the ship was then sold for scrapping at the end of 1908. The end of the CNI's first ships.





Technical Data

Land: France
Company: Company de Navigation Est (Compagnie de Navigation International, CNI)
Year of construction: November 1885
Year of launch: January 1887
Commissioned: 10. August 1887
Fate: scrapped 1908
Length: 132,4m (434,4ft)
Beam: 14,5m (47,6ft)
Draught: 7,5m (24,6ft)
Boiler: 4x coal-fired double-ended Ovalboilers 2x coal-fierd single-ended Ovalboilers
Coal bunker: 1267t + 278t
Coal consuption: 180t/day
Engines: 1x tripple-expansion Reciprocating engine
Speed: cruise: 14-15kn (25-28km/h 16-17mph)
   max: 15,8kn (29km/h 18mph)
Capacity: 164 First Class
     400 Steerage
Crew:  120






Build by: Cubemann2002, X

Renders by: Axandres274



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