Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
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The Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM) was a French shipbuilding company. The 'Société des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée' was founded in 1853 by Philip Taylor, while a new company, the 'Nouvelle' société, was founded in 1856. It had shipyards in La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon and in Graville, now part of Le Havre. The company was later merged with other French shipbuilding companies.
[edit] Ships built
- Spanish monitor Puigcerdá (1874)
- Spanish ironclad Numancia (1865) first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth.
- Greek cruiser Navarhos Miaoulis (1879)
- Spanish pre-Dreadnought Battleship Pelayo (1888)
- Chilean battleship Capitán Prat (1889)
- Japanese cruiser Matsushima (1890)
- Japanese cruiser Itsukushima (1890)
- Russian pre-Dreadnought Tsessarevitch (1902)
- British hospital ship HMHS Salta (1911)
- French Dreadnought Paris (1912)
- French carrier Béarn (1914)
- Norwegian / United Kingdom cruise ship Saga Rose (1965)
- Dutch / Dutch Antilles LPG-tanker Antilla Bay #1396, (1973)
- many others
[edit] External links
- History of the shipyards of La Seyne during the 19th century (in French)
- {Julien Turgan (1868), "Forges et Chantier de la Méditerranée", Les grandes usines: études industrielles en France et à l'étranger, 7, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NDYVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA305#v=onepage&q&f=false
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