Assigned to replace ships at the end of their career, two liners nearly identical were constructed in 1931 and 1933 in Le Havre. Their port of registry being in Calais, they were named Cote d'Azur and Côte d'Argent. The Côte d'Azur sank the 17th of May 1940 in Dunkirk. Requisitioned, the Côte d'Argent knew the tragedy of Dunkirk evacuation too.
The ship was inspected by the Kriegsmarine the 29th of July 1940.
Converted in minelayer, the Côte d'Argent is renamed OSTMARCK. The German flag replaced the French flag. The ship spend the war time as a minelayer in front of the coasts controlled by the Wehrmacht. On the 21st of April 1945, on an assignment near Alhout Island in Kattegat, between Denmark and Sweden, the Côte d'Argent was sunk by allied bombers...
2 weeks later, Germany capitulated. |
