SS Lamoricière was a French passenger liner operated by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique.

For his services in the First World War he had been made a chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1921.

The ship was carrying 272 passengers (of which 88 were military personnel) and 122 crew members, and a cargo of 330 tonnes, principally of vegetables, on its final voyage.

Around midday on 8 January the ship passed between the two principal Balearic Islands and started heading towards Marseilles.

The increasing savage storm, with winds at Force 7 on the Beaufort scale, was complicated further by Lamoricière running low on coal (which was also of poor quality).

[4] The remains of Lamoricière were found, in 2008, at a depth of 156 metres (512 ft) some 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) northeast of Menorca by a team of Spanish and Italian divers.