YAQUE Class: 1947 - Final Yankees Shaw-Savill Children's Playroom and a cabin

Children's Playroom and a cabin

All passengers and crew were saved but the ship sank off the Canary Islands

For a short time the DE GRASSE became France's largest passenger liner and the first CGT ship to reenter North Atlantic service

Photos include a portrait

and C decks

YAQUE Class: 1947 - Final Yankees Shaw-Savill Children's Playroom and a cabinUnited Fruit Company: A deck plan of the YAQUE Class of combo freighters built immediately after WW2. The plan itself is reminiscent of the great pre WW2 designs printed on thin tissue, opening to a large size (18" by 24"), nicely illustrated, and showing plans large enough that you can easily imagine yourself strolling the decks. Mark Goldberg, in his history of American fruit ships "Going Bananas", describes the class as "beautiful white ships with