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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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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 - (1948-1953)
- Maroc - (1948-1968)
- Sampiero
Corso
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- Ville
d'Ajaccio - (1948-1960)
- Ville
de Bordeaux - (1956-1964)
- Ville
de Marseille - (1948-1968)
- Ville
de Tunis - (1952-1967)
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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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- 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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Societe Editions de France (Marseille) card of Ville d'Ajaccio.
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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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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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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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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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card as renamed the Maroc, also published by M.Berjaud
of Bordeaux,
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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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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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Labo-Photo-Sud-Est (Marseille) card of Sampiero Corso.
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- Ville de Tunis (1952-1967)
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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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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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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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