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Société Nationale de Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF: 1951-1990)
Société Nouvelle d'Armement Transmanche (SNAT)
Société Propietaire des Navaires (SPN: 1990- )


This page is devoted to postcards and photographs of the Newhaven-Dieppe ferries of the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF). Ships on this page are listed below, and there is a table of individual ship histories.

Post war French flag service from Dieppe were run by the Société Nationale de Chemins de Fer Français (SNCF), initially using the pre-war Londres and Arromanches, completed in 1939 and 1940.

SNCF distanced themselves from the operation when ownership of vessels passed to the Société Nouvelle d'Armement Transmanche (SNAT) in 1989, and the operating company became the Société Propietaire des Navaires (SPN) in 1990. Operations passed to SeaFrance in 1996.


Ships on this Page:-
Arromanches 1947-1965 - built: 1940
Lisieux 1952-1966
Londres 1946-1963 - built: 1939

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Londres
(Built: 1939 - SNCF: 1945-1963)

2434 gross tons - 94 metres long - 1450 passengers - 24 knots

Londres was built in 1939. It was intended to name her Dieppe, but she was delivered as Londres. She was taken over by the occupying German forces in June 1940 and renamed Lothringen. After the war, she was handed back to SNCF and renamed Londres. She worked on Newhaven-Dieppe services until withdrawn in 1963. She was sold the following year, becoming the Ionion II of Typaldos Bros, Piraeus. Typaldos failed soon afterwards, and she was sold to the Aegean SN Co as Sofoclis Venizelos for service between Piraeus and Heraklion until 1966.


Postcard of Londres at
Dieppe.







Arromanches

2434 gross tons - 94 metres long - 1450 passengers - 24 knots

Arromanches was intended to be the Newhaven of the LBSC. Renamed Vichy during the German occupation, she was returned to the SNCF as Arromanches in 1947. Arromanches operated between Newhaven and Dieppe until 1964 when she was sold to Nomikos at the Leto, for the service Piraeus-Tinos-Mykonos. She was scrapped in 1970 following a grounding.


Postcard of Arromanches at Dover.




Postcard of Arromanches at Dieppe.




Postcard of Arromanches at Dieppe.




Postcard of Arromanches at Dieppe.




Postcard of Arromanches at Newhaven.




Postcard of Arromanches at Newhaven.







Lisieux
(SNCF: 1952-1966)

2943 gross tons - 95.5 metres long - 1450 passengers - 22 knots

Lisieux entered service for the SNCF between Newhaven and Dieppe in 1952. In 1960 she was transferred to a Weymouth-Jersey-St Malo service. She was withdrawn in 1966 and sold to Nomikos as the Apollon, for service between Pireaus and Mykonos. She passed to Agapitos in 1977, remaining on the same route, but was laid up in 1980 and broken up two years later.


Official postcard of Lisieux.
Publisher: Skyfotos.




Postcard of Lisieux at Dieppe.




Postcard of Lisieux at Dieppe.




Postcard of Lisieux at Dieppe.




Postcard of Lisieux at Dieppe.




Postcard of Lisieux at Dieppe.




Postcard of Lisieux at Dieppe.






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