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three pages covering the Mediterranean and African services of
the CGT fleet (Compagnie Generale Transatlantique - know as la
Transat in France, and marketed as the French Line in the
UK and USA). This page is devoted to CGT Mediterranean and African
services, from 1945 to the introduction of the first car ferry,
the Napoleon of 1960. CGT moved its ships around from
route to route, so my definition of whether to include a ship
is whether it is covered in the book La Transat et Marseille
by Paul Bois. In 1948, CGT took over the Corsican services of
Fraissinet, and these vessels are also covered on this page.
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- The table below shows
complete career histories of selected ships on this page. Below
the table are commercial and official cards of the fleet in chronological
order. Dates given in headings are those within the CGT fleet,
not the life of the ship.
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- Ships on this Page:-
- Commandant
Quere
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- Cyrnos - (1948-1966)
- Fred
Scamaroni
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- Maroc - (1948-1968)
- Sampiero
Corso
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- Ville
d'Ajaccio
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- Ville
de Bordeaux
- (1956-1964)
- Ville
de Marseille
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- Ville
de Tunis
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- Ships on Page 1A:-
- Charles-Roux - 1908-1936
- Carthage - 1910-1915
- Duc
D'Aumale
- 1913-1950
- Gouverneur
Generale Chanzy
- 1921-1963
- Gouverneur
Generale Grevy
- 1921-1946
- Gouverneur
Generale Gueydon
- 1922-1945
- Gouverneur
Generale Jonnart
- 1922-1948
- Lamorciere - 1920-1942
- Le
Gard
- 1890-1918
- Marechal
Bugeaud
- 1890-1927
- Oudjda - 1881-1929
- Timgad - 1911-1939
- Ville
d'Alger
- 1935-1966
- Ville
de Naples
- 1881-1929
- Ville
d'Oran
- 1936-1965
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- Mediterranean Car Ferries from 1960
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- Ville d'Ajaccio (1948-1960)
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- Ville d'Ajaccio was built in 1929 for Fraissinet's
Marseille-Corsica service. She passed to CGT on May 1st 1949,
when they took over the Corsica services. She was replaced by
the car ferry Napoleon in 1960.
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- A Societe
Editions de France (Marseille) card of Ville d'Ajaccio.
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- A Labo-Photo-Sud-Est
(Marseille) card of Ville d'Ajaccio.
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- Fred Scamaroni (1948-1953)
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- Fred Scamaroni was built in 1923 as Kong Dag
for Norway-Germany services. She was bought by the French government
in 1946 to replace war losses on the Corsican services, and was
operated by Fraissinet. She passed to CGT on May 1st 1949, when
they took over the Corsican services.
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- A Societe
Editions de France (Marseille) card of Fred Scamaroni.
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- Cyrnos (1948-1966)
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- Cyrnos was built for Fraissinet in 1929,
for their Marseille-Corsica overnight service. She passed to
CGT on May 1st 1949, when they took over the Corsican services.
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- Two
unidentified cards of Cyrnos.
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- An EPI
(Nice) card of Cyrnos in Nice harbour.
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- Editions
Rene (Nice) card of Cyrnos at Bastia.
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- Editions
M.C Miramont (Bastia) card of Cyrnos at Ajaccio.
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- G.Gandini
(Marseille) card of Cyrnos.
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- Commandant Quere (1948-1968)
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- Commandant Quere was built in England in 1948 for
the Marseille-Corsica service, the first new postwar delivery
to the Mediterranean fleet. The Corsica services passed to CGT
from Fraissinet in this year. She served on the route until replaced
in 1968.
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is an official CGT card printed by Estel of Paris.
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- An unidentified
photographic card of Commandant Quere.
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- Ville de Marseille
- Maroc
- Ville
de Marseille (1948-1968)
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- The Ville de Marseille
and her sister Ville de Tunis were both built for the
African services out of Marseilles in 1951. Following the successful
refitting of Ville d'Alger, it was decided that Ville
de Marseille could be better employed on the Bordeaux-Casablanca
service, and operated on that route from new. She was renamed
Maroc to suite the new deployment. She became too large
for this route, and in 1956 she reverted to her original name
and planned service from Marseille to Algiers. She was transferred
to Cie.Gen.Transmediterranee with CGT's other Mediterranean services
in 1969, surviving with them until 1973, when she was broken
up.
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is a card of the Ville de Marseille published by M.Berjaud
of Bordeaux, and so I presume it was released when the ship was
new, before the renaming to Maroc.
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- A card
as renamed the Maroc, also published by M.Berjaud of Bordeaux,
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- This
is an official CGT card of the Ville de Marseille printed
by Estel of Paris.
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- Postcard
of the Ville de Marseille leaving Marseille.
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- Sampiero Corso (1951-1967)
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- Sampiero Corso was built for the French government
in 1936, but was operated by Fraissinet on their Marseille-Corsica
mail route. She was seriously damaged during WW2, and did not
return to service until 1951, by which time operations had passed
to passed to CGT. She was sold in 1967.
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- Editions
M.C Miramont (Bastia) card of Sampiero Corso at Ajaccio.
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- Editions
M.C Miramont (Bastia) card of Sampiero Corso, posted from
Bastia in 1958.
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- A Labo-Photo-Sud-Est
(Marseille) card of Sampiero Corso.
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- Ville de Tunis (1952-1967)
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- The Ville de Tunis
was built for the service from Marseille to Tunis in 1952, on
which she operated until 1967. She was then sold to Greek owners,
and ran as the Megalonissos Kriti and City of Athens
until scrapped in 1980.
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is an official CGT card of the Ville de Tunis printed
by Estel of Paris.
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- A similar
photograph (but with a lot more passengers on deck) of Ville
de Tunis, published by Labo-Photo-Sud-Est of Marseille.
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- A rather
poor colour postcard of Ville de Tunis, also published
by Labo-Photo-Sud-Est of Marseille.
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- Ville de Bordeaux (1956-1964)
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- Ville de Bordeaux was built in Gothenburg in 1946
as the Swedish Lloyd Saga. She operated on their Gothenburg-London
service until 1956, when she was acquired by CGT to replace the
Maroc on the Bordeaux-Casablanca service, where she had
proved to be too large. Ville de Bordeaux was sold to
Bulgaria in 1964, and ran between Varna and USSR ports until
1975, when she was scrapped.
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- This
is an official CGT card of the Ville de Bordeaux, printed
by Estel of Paris.
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- An attractive
colour card of the Ville de Bordeaux, printed by G.Gandini
of Marseille.
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- A postcard
of Ville de Bordeaux, published by Labo-Photo-Sud-Est
of Marseille.
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- A colour
postcard of Ville de Bordeaux, also published by
Labo-Photo-Sud-Est of Marseille.
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