French steamer notable for carrying refugees from the Spanish Civil War
SS Winnipeg in 1939
History
Name
1918–1930: SS Jacques Cartier
1930–1938: SS Winnipeg
1938–1941: Paimpol
1941: SS Winnipeg
1941–1942: SS Winnipeg II
Owner
1918–1938: Cie. Générale Transatlantique, Paris
1938–1941 Compagnie France-Navigation (C. F. N.), Le Havre
1941–1941 British Government
1941–1942 Canadian Pacific Steamships[1]
Port of registry
1918–1941: France
1941: United Kingdom
1941–1942: Canada
Builder
Ateliers & Chantiers de France, Dunkirk, France
Fate
Sunk by German submarine U-443 in the Atlantic Ocean 22 October 1942
General characteristics
Type
Passenger ship
Tonnage
9,807 GRT
Length
143.9 m (472.1 ft)
Beam
18.2 m (59.7 ft)
Propulsion
Two triple expansion engines
Speed
14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Crew
114 officers & crew
SS Winnipeg was a French steamer notable for arriving at Valparaíso, Chile, on 3 September 1939, with 2,200 Spanish immigrants aboard. The refugees were fleeing Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). The Chilean President Pedro Aguirre Cerda had named the poet Pablo Neruda Special Consul in Paris for Immigration, and he was charged with what he called "the noblest mission I have ever undertaken": shipping the Spanish refugees, who had been housed by the French government in internment camps, to Chile.[2]
^SS Winnipeg 11 (+1942) wrecksite.eu
^Winnipeg, el poema que cruzó el Atlántico Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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