The Last Voyage of the SS Ile de France | New York Social Diary
Scott Houston McBee. The SS Ile de France was built in for the French shipping company, Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (known commercially as The French Line) at a cost of 10,000,000. Her construction began in 1925 at the Penhoet shipyards in SaintNazaire, France. She was the first major liner built after World War I.