Built by Chantiers de Penhoet, St. Nazaire, France in 1901, she was christened La Savoie for Le Havre - New York service. She was refitted in 1914 for WWI as a French Navy auxiliary cruiser. La Savoie resumed her Le Havre - New York service in 1919 until she was scrapped in 1927 at Dunkirk.