malles ostende douvres 14 18

Je cherche des détails : finition des malles Ostende Douvres 14 18, finitions générales de camouflage, noms des malles en service de guerre et surtout des infos sur les malles transformées en navires hopitaux. Merci d'avance pour toute info. Robert

Bonsoir Robert,


Voici quelques photos de malles durant la WW I: PIETER DE CONINCK

Amicalement
Maurice

LEOPOLD II

JAN BREYDEL

PRINCESSE CLEMENTINE

PRINCESSE HENRIETTE

RAPIDE

VILLE DE LIEGE

L O 1895 Rapide très peu d'info

The ship was used as a hospital ship during WWI 14-18.

It
was sold as scrap in 1923.
1897[size=9] Princesse Clémentine [/size]Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog trad ze in marinedienst voor de geallieerden
net als haar rederijzusterschepen, en voer ze langs verscheidene Britse
havens, omdat ze ook zo snel ter plaatse was. Haar taak was troepen en
bevoorrading naar het vasteland over te brengen. Ze was eveneens getooid
met de blauw-wit-grijs-zwarte-camouflagekleurenbanden langs haar flanken en bovenbouw.
1862 BelgiqueBuilt at Cockerill: the 'Belgique'. The ship had a speed of 15 knots. She was used in the great war to transport munition.
1910 Jan Breydel

The Jan Breydel
transported his Majesty the Queen and the Royal children to Engeland
on the 28th August. Passing the route at Vlissingen through Dutch
waters, the vessel was escorted by four Brittish escort ships.
The Jan Breydel stayed in Dover until the Queen returned to Antwerp
on the 7th September.


When the siege on Antwerp started the 27th September, the vessels
were at the disposal of the Belgian Government. A few days before
the fall of Antwerp the vessel participated in an important roll to
transport the diplomat corps, the civil servants and fugitives to
Ostend. Until the fall of the city and in general our vessels had a
very important roll in the exodus of our population when the first
World War started.
1914 Ville de Liège


On the 22nd she left to Antwerp where our Belgian government was
staying an was given the mission to bring the money reserves
from the national bank to Ostend.
It was one of the vessels which due to their speed have performed an
important role in the evacuation of the government, diplomats, civil
servants and pupulation.

When the Germans arrived in Ostende
on the 17th October, the city was empty.
On that date the Ville de Liege was handed over to the English
Ministry of War.

During the battle of the Ijzer the
vessel was performing mission in front of the Belgian and French
coast in order to transport wounded and material to the West corner
of Flanders. There was an ammunition factory at Havre where the
vessel could load. This until the 31st of March when
wounded were transported by train.


On the 2nd September the vessel
left for Dover to be converted to an hospital ship by the Ministry
of War.

Between the period when the vessel
become under the command of the Ministry of War on the 21 Juni 1917
and the 31st December 1918, the vessel had performed 252 trips and
transported 77194 wounded and 36356 soldiers.

photo Ville de L[size=9]iège (camouflage paint)[/size]

Peu de détails ! mais Maurice [size=9]est parvenu a trouvé des photos[/size]

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www.geocities.ws/kevinmollet/Companies/History_of_the_RMT/history_of_the_rmt.html
et users.telenet.be/eddy.lannoo/151.htm