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Old 11-30-12, 02:02 AM   #6547
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I made a search on the net but found no french steamer of the time with the names "Pluviôse" or "Pluvoise".
This is why I buy so many books for my research. Pluviôse was a steam tanker launched in 1931, 9561 GRT. She was seized by the Germans in 1940 and renamed Bitonto. Scuttled at Marseille in August 1944, she was raised after the war and broken up.
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