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| | | image = Freefrench british captured hms CHARLES PLUMIER.jpg | ||
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| | | image_caption = HMS ''Largs'' at [[Greenock]] | ||
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| | | country = France | ||
| | | flag = {{shipboxflag|France|naval}} | ||
| | | name = MV ''Charles Plumier'' | ||
| | | owner = Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (The French Line) | ||
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| | | builder = Chantiers & Ateliers de Provence at Port de Bouc | ||
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| | | completed = October 1938 | ||
| | | commissioned = 1938 | ||
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| | | fate = Seized by [[Royal Navy]] November 1941 | ||
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| | | country = United Kingdom | ||
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| | | name = HMS ''Largs'' | ||
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| | | acquired = November 1941 | ||
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| | | decommissioned = 1945 | ||
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| | | country = France | ||
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| | | commissioned = 1945 | ||
| | | decommissioned = 1964 | ||
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{{Infobox ship career | | fate = Sold to Greek Cruise company | ||
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| | | country = Greece | ||
| | | flag = {{shipboxflag|Greece}} | ||
| | | name = MV ''Pleias'' | ||
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| | | commissioned = 1964 | ||
| | | decommissioned = 1968 | ||
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| | | fate = Scrapped 1968 | ||
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| | | class = Cargo-passenger ship | ||
| | | displacement = |tonnage=4,626 tons [[Gross Register Tons|GRT]] | ||
| | | length = 104,45 m | ||
| | | beam = 15,8 m | ||
| | | draught = deadweight 2386 tons | ||
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| | | propulsion = 2 propellers, 2-stroke MAN-Diesel engines, 5200HP | ||
| | | speed = 14,5 Knots | ||
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'''HMS ''Largs''''' was a former [[Compagnie Generale Transatlantique|Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line)]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.frenchlines.com/ship_en_93.php |title=French Lines cargo ship CHARLES-PLUMIER |access-date=5 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024104711/http://www.frenchlines.com/ship_en_93.php |archive-date=24 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> fruit (banana) ship captured by the Royal Navy ship [[HMS Faulknor (H62)|HMS ''Faulknor'']]<ref name=imperial>{{cite web|title=A 6944|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205141019|publisher=www.iwm.org.uk|accessdate=15 December 2012}}</ref> five months after the [[Battle of France]] while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "[[ocean boarding vessel]]". She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of [[World War II]], including Operations ''Torch'', ''Husky'' and ''Overlord'' and she would be manned by naval, army and air force crew.<ref name=bbc2>{{cite web|title=Normandy: Combined Operations|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/78/a2225378.shtml|publisher=www.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=15 December 2012}}</ref> | '''HMS ''Largs''''' was a former [[Compagnie Generale Transatlantique|Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line)]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.frenchlines.com/ship_en_93.php |title=French Lines cargo ship CHARLES-PLUMIER |access-date=5 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024104711/http://www.frenchlines.com/ship_en_93.php |archive-date=24 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> fruit (banana) ship captured by the Royal Navy ship [[HMS Faulknor (H62)|HMS ''Faulknor'']]<ref name=imperial>{{cite web|title=A 6944|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205141019|publisher=www.iwm.org.uk|accessdate=15 December 2012}}</ref> five months after the [[Battle of France]] while docked at Gibraltar in November 1940 and commissioned as an "[[ocean boarding vessel]]". She subsequently became a Combined Operations Headquarters ship for almost every significant amphibious operation of [[World War II]], including Operations ''Torch'', ''Husky'' and ''Overlord'' and she would be manned by naval, army and air force crew.<ref name=bbc2>{{cite web|title=Normandy: Combined Operations|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/78/a2225378.shtml|publisher=www.bbc.co.uk|accessdate=15 December 2012}}</ref> | ||
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She was built by France and named MV Charles Plumier[2] in 1938. Following the creation of Vichy France and Free France she was transferred in 1941 to the Royal Navy, instead of being handed over to the Free French Navy, and renamed HMS Largs. She took part in many operations including Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, and Operation Overlord, during the invasion of Normandy.[4] she was the headquarters ship for Sword Beach.[5]
Camouflage research
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HMS Largs was used in 1942 for secret trials of a Canadian invention, diffused lighting camouflage. This used dimmable lamps for counter-illumination, camouflage by bringing the brightness of the ship's superstructure to the same as the night sky. The system of 60 lamps reduced the distance at which a ship could be seen from a surfaced submarine by 25% using binoculars, or by 33% using the naked eye. It worked best on clear moonless nights, at best preventing Largs from being seen until it closed to Script error: No such module "convert". when counter-illuminated, compared to Script error: No such module "convert". unlighted, a 57% reduction in range. However, with the development of marine radar, the system was not put into service.[6][7]
Pacific & Post WWII
In 1945 she was transferred to the Pacific War and used in actions off Thailand and Malaya. After the end of the war she was handed back to France, and served for nineteen years. She was sold off to a private company from Greece in 1964 as a cruise ship, and given the name MV Pleias. She was scrapped in 1968.
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