Built as a cargo/passenger/mail ship by Ateliers & Chantiers de La Loire, St Nazaire for Chargeurs Réunis, Le Havre.
26 December 1905 launched under the name EUROPE.
Tonnage 4.769 gross, 3.796 dwt., dim. 117 x 14.02m.
Two 6-cyl. triple expansion steam engines, manufactured by builder, 4.800 bhp., twin screws, speed 14.8 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 245 passengers in three classes.
April 1906 delivered to owners.
22 April 1906 sailed for her maiden voyage from Le Havre to the African West Coast.
23 March 1913 she took Dr. Albert Schweitzer to Libreville.
From January 1915 used as auxiliary cruiser by the French Navy.
28 February 1915 she captured the former Hamburg America steamer DACIA in the English Channel and brought her to Brest. (The DACIA underway with cotton from Galveston to Rotterdam, was sold in the USA by the outbreak of the war to American interests, and at the time she was captured carried an American crew and registry. She was thereafter used by the French Government, and renamed YSER. Lost when she was torpedoed on 6 November 1915 under that name by the U-38 off Algiers without loss of live.)
January 1925 the EUROPE went aground about 30 miles of Lagos, in which she damaged her rudder and propellers. Towed to Dakar, and later to Bordeaux for repairs.
1930 Her tonnage is given by Lloyds as 4.838 gross, 2.897 net, 3.003 dwt.
October 1930 broken up at Dunkirk.
Ivory coast 1991 50f sg 1041, scott 906.
Source: Watercraft Philately Vol Nov. Dec. 1993 page 33. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1906.
Some web-sites. Lloyds Register 1930.