PCT4297682 Oil tanker ???a Charente??????photograph at sea in 1950 - Seized by the Germans in June 1940 while it was under construction, this building was completed by the Kriegsmarine and launched under the name OSTFRIESLAND. Caught by the English in Germany in 1945, it was returned to France the same year and took the name La Charente. He left Cherbourg for Toulon and left for Saigon. For three years, he will fly from Singapore to Saigon to refuel. From 1950, he was assigned to Marine Indochine in 1955 and returned to Toulon in 1959 to be disarmed.; (add.info.: Oil tanker ???a Charente??????photograph at sea in 1950 - Seized by the Germans in June 1940 while it was under construction, this building was completed by the Kriegsmarine and launched under the name OSTFRIESLAND. Caught by the English in Germany in 1945, it was returned to France the same year and took the name La Charente. He left Cherbourg for Toulon and left for Saigon. For three years, he will fly from Singapore to Saigon to refuel. From 1950, he was assigned to Marine Indochine in 1955 and returned to Toulon in 1959 to be disarmed.); by Patrice Cartier.