[1] Built as HMT Rollcall, a salvage tug, for the British Royal Navy in 1918 it was sold into commercial service in 1922.

In 1935, the tug traveled to Saint-Nazaire to escort the completed superliner Normandie back to Havre for the liner's maiden voyage.

Albert Lebrun, president of France at the time sailed aboard the tug to inspect the brand-new Normandie in May of the same year.

[citation needed] Requisitioned by the French Navy at the start of the Second World War, the tender carried more than 500 troops when she departed Le Havre to assist the evacuation of the battleship Jean-Bart from the fitting out dock on 11 June 1940.

After the end of WWII, her fellow tender Titan was discovered unscathed, and in August 1945 was brought to the refloated wreck to tow her back to Havre.