HMS Largs
HMS Largs was a former Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) fruit (banana) ship captured by the Royal Navy ship HMS Faulknor five months after the Battle of France while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "Ocean Boarding Vessel". She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of World War II, including Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord and she would be manned by naval, army and air force crew.
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HMS Largs
HMS Largs was a former Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) fruit (banana) ship captured by the Royal Navy ship HMS Faulknor five months after the Battle of France while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "Ocean Boarding Vessel". She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of World War II, including Operations Torch, Husky and Overlord and she would be manned by naval, army and air force crew.
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Returned to France
Scrapped 1968
Sold to Greek Cruise company
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Chantiers & Ateliers de Provence at Port de Bouc
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by Royal Navy November 1941
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cargo-passenger ship
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United Kingdom
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deadweight 2386 tons
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Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
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HMS Largs was a former Compagn ...... aval, army and air force crew.
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HMS Largs
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MV Charles Plumier
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MV Pleias
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