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Amiral Latouche-Tréville, also called Admiral Ship Latouche-Tréville, is a French commercial ship of the sea transport company Chargeurs Réunis (Compagnie Maritime des Chargeurs Réunis). Many documents show that a young Vietnamese man named Văn Ba once served on this ship from 1911 to 1913 as a vice-cook. The man was later known as Ho Chi Minh.

Avoid mistaking with three other ships also named Latouche-Tréville of the French Navy. All three were named following an Admiral, Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville.

Basic Information
Admiral Ship Latouche-Tréville belonged to Chargeurs Réunis company, also called Five-Star Company, since the company's watermark has five stars on the smoke tunnel. This is one of six ships named Admiral by Chargeurs Réunis, including Latouche-Tréville, de Kersaint Nielly, Orly Ponty and Magon.

The ship was named after a French admiral, Louis René Latouche-Tréville (1745-1804), it was coded 5601960. The ship started being built by the Loire Company (France) on 21st September 1903, and set sail for the first time in February 1904 in Nantes. It is 118.7 meters long, 15.2 meters horizontally, can carry 5.572 tons, with a maximum carriage of 7.200 tons, ran by steam, and was able to carry 1.100 people (including the crew).

After finished building, Chargeurs Réunis brought the ship into use from 1904 to 1929. In the First World War, the ship was used to transport the Russian Expedition Army, led by Lokhvitsky, from Manzhouli to Marseille to fight alongside the French. On 27th February 1925, it impacted with a steam ship, Anna Skogland, of Norway in Havre and received mild damage. On 11th March 1929, the ship was removed from use and broken up in Dunkirk, after 25 years of use.