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Lac du Bourget, France
Above : Post card view of Hautecombe
Savoie (ex- Parisien No 6)
Hautecombe (sx- Parisien No 5)
Two vessels were procured from the River Rhone in the 1890s and sailed until 1922
Cygnes de Lac
Sailed from the 1930s. In 1946 it renamed Ville d'Aix and survived
in service until 1954. Survived as a floating dance hall until a fire
in 1969. Finally scrapped in 1973
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