1950 - S.S. Europa, now rechristened Liberte sails again

It has taken 11 years, a world war and a change of flag to do it, but the big 49.850-ton two-stacker has recovered her dignity. One day in august 1939, as the german liner Europa, she slipped out of New York harbor and scurried across the Atlantic to Bremenhaven just three days before the nazis invaded Poland. Now rechristened the Liberte  (1950 - my annotation), she proudly flies the tricolor of France. Completely refitted to carry 1.513 passengers, she is back in service between Le Havre and New York as the most important ship in the reborn frenche merchant marine.