SS Paris was a French ocean liner built for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique by Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire, France.

Although not so large as the Olympic-class or the Imperator-class and not intended to challenge the speed record of the Mauretania, the Paris, operated by the Cie Generale Transatlantique, was one of the finest liners put into service, at the time.

On 31 feet draught, she displaced 36,700 metric tons [2] The Paris was intended to be the second of four new ocean liners which CGT entered into an agreement with the French government to build in November 1912.

In return for mail subsidies from the French government, CGT planned to introduce the four new vessels in five-year intervals between 1912 and 1931.

Following the entry into service of the SS Normandie, the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique planned to operate Paris exclusively for cruises.

"[8] Paris's interior reflected the transitional period of the early twenties, between the earlier preferred Jacobean, Georgian, Baroque, and Palladian themes that were used in earlier liners built before World War I. Paris' interiors were also a fusion of Art Nouveau and Art Deco.

Many important early French Art Deco designers worked on the interiors and furnishings such as Louis Süe, Paul Follot, René Lalique, Suzanne Lalique-Haviland and Rene Prou.

[12][13] The room was topped by a softly illuminated glass ceiling and entered by means of an imperial staircase with a mirrored background.

A year after the war had ended, the 50,000-ton German liner Europa was handed over to the French Line as compensation for Normandie and renamed Liberté.

While Liberté was being refitted in Le Havre, a December gale tore the ship from her moorings and threw her into the half-submerged wreck of Paris.