s.s. 'France Cherie' - Letter from Surveyor S. M. Newcombe to Lloyds Register of Shipping, regarding the midship section plan for France Cherie - 24th March 1922. The referenced plan is shown above. [© Lloyd's Register Foundation : Unique Reference Code : LRF-PUN-CFF84-0145-P] [760]

The Iron Screw Steamer France Chérie complete with a schooner rig was of 129 Gross Register Tonnage and built by the Penarth Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Company Limited and launched on the 13th February 1891.

The wonderful website Naval History.Net [794] has a reference to France Cherie in service during WWI :

France Cherie, hired screw tug. Built 1891, 141grt. In service as BDV 1916-9.19 Most hired screw tugs over 70grt used as expeditionary force tugs during part of the war; most of vessels released from naval service 1917-18 carried out similar duties. Nearly all were chartered as naval tugs and flew red ensign.

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