| Name: | JEAN BRILLANT |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 19/02/1935 |
| Completed: | 05/1935 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 1462 |
| Dimensions: | 640grt, 350nrt, 159.9 x 29.1 x 17.3ft |
| Engines: | Oil engine, 2SCSA, 6cyl (340 x 570mm), 188nhp |
| Engines by: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.5knots |
| Reg Number: | 161580 |
| History: | |
| 24/04/1935 | Cie de Transport du Bas St Laurent Ltee, Newcastle |
| 1935 | Registered at Quebec |
| 1970 | A Langlais, Quebec |
| 1972 | Richard Kritzer, Florida; renamed LIZZA K |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 36 x 1st & 12 x Steerage Class passengers plus |
| facilities for 100 x day passengers on deck | |
| Built for service in the Gulf of St Lawrence and to Newfoundland | |
| Between 02/1943 & 11/1944 she made 245 voyages between Miami and Nassau, | |
| including occasional stops near Cuba. Usually she was escorted by US warships | |
| 1970: Sold for conversion to a floating restaurant. Work not completed | |
| 1972: Converted to a yacht & deleted from Lloyd's Register |
Above photo as JEAN BRILLANT is courtesy of John Bage
Above photo as JEAN BRILLANT is copyright of René Beauchamp
Above photo as JEAN BRILLANT is copyright of the Royal Air Force
Above photo as JEAN BRILLANT is copyright of John Timmins
Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 20/02/1935