"Pierre Loti" Takes Up Running

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“Pierre Loti” Takes Up

RUNNING THE French liner Pierre Loti (5,114 tons) arrived in Sydney from Indo-China on December 27 on her first voyage in the Pacific. She has replaced the Layerov.se, which has been sold to Japanese interests, on the monthly Sydney-Noumean-New Hebrides run.

The Pierre Loti has had a varied career.

As the Russian steamer Emperor Nicholas I. she figured prominently in the evacuation of Sebastopol during the Russian Revolution in 1920. The vessel was confiscated by the French Government at Bizerta (Northern Africa) while assisting in transporting Russian refugees.

Taken over by the Messageries Maritimes in 1921, she was renamed the Pierre Loti, after the French author of Tahitian fame.