Lafayette Medal – Compagnie Générale Transatlantique – Signed by Maurice Delannoy
Bronze
Weight: 153,7 g
Diameter: 68 mm
Obverse:
Bust of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, in profile to the left.
Circular inscription : LA FAYETTE 1757-1834
Signature: M.Delannoy.
Reverse:
COMPAGNIE GENERALE
TRANSATLANTIQUE
Side view of the Lafayette liner.
M-S-LAFAYETTE
LE PLVS GRAND
PAQVEBOT FRANÇAIS
A MOTEVRS
MAI 1930
Edge:
Cornucopia punch (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
History:
Commissioned on May 17, 1930 on the Le Havre-New York line. She was France’s first diesel-powered transatlantic liner and the third-largest diesel-powered ship in the world when she entered service. Victim of a fire on May 4, 1938 during a refit in Le Havre, it was destroyed in Rotterdam in 1939.
