Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT), also called French Line, was a French shipping line which operated ocean liners on the Transatlantic Route, it was founded by the Péreire Brothers in 1861, it would merge with Messageries Maritimes and then with Compagnie Générale Maritime in 1996 to form CMA CGM.

Among his fleet, he had the Ocean liners: SS La Bourgogne,"Six Hundred Lives Were Lost at Sea on July Fourth," Terre Haute Express, July 6, 1898, pg. 1. which would sink south of Sable Island in Nova Scotia in 1899, and the SS Grandcamp, which would cause the Texas City Disaster in 1947, and for having had the ocean liners SS Paris, SS France (1912), SS Île de France,  SS NormandieOudin, Bernard. Dictionnaire des Architectes, Sechiers, Paris, (1994), (in French), page 372. and the SS France of 1961.

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 Official website
 French Lines
 CGT French Line History and Ephemera  GG Archives

Category:Defunct shipping companies
Category:1861 establishments in Europe
Category:1860s establishments in France
Category:1996 disestablishments in Europe
Category:20th-century disestablishments in France
Category:Companies based in Paris