A Collection of 4 Menus for Breakfast and dinner on board M.S. Lafayette

4 menus, lino title illustrations of ships, title in red, text in French, 4to,Tuesday 27th July; Wednesday 28th July; Tuesday 3rd August; Saturday 7th August 1937.

M.S. Lafayette was launched on 19th May, 1929. Marquis Henri de Dampierre, the descendant of the famous Lafayette, who helped the Americans during the break from the British Empire in the late 18th Century, had secured a ticket for her first voyage. The commander on the Lafayette’s first voyage was the experienced Captain Jules Chabot who had been in CGT for more than twenty years. From her first voyage until 1932, M.S. Lafayette was the largest ship in the CGT service. However she would only run for five more years. In 1838 she caught fire while being overhauled at Le Havre. She was sold to a breaker in Rotterdam.