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House flag of the Compagnie Commerciale de Transports à Vapeur Français - Images by Ivan Sache, 18 November 2018
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The Compagnie Commerciale de Transports à Vapeur Français was
established in 1881, soon after the adoption of the Law on 30 January
1881 on grants offered to the merchant navy.
Presided by the wealthy textile industrialist Charles Cherpin
(1813-1884), Senator of Loire (1879-1884), the board of the company was composed of seven shipowners and merchants from Le Havre. The aim of the company was "to transport goods on French steamships between Le
Havre-Bordeaux, the West Indies, Colón-Panamá and New Orleans." The
company's fleet was announced to be composed of "seven big ships of
3,000 tons each, to be built by the Société des Forges et Chantiers de
la Méditerranée".
[Le Moniteur d'Issoire, 23 March 1881]
Ivan Sache, 18 November 2018
Album des pavillons nationaux et des marques distinctives des marines de guerre et de commerce (1889) [f9r89] shows the house flag of the Compagnie Commerciale de Transports à Vapeur Français as quartered blue (left quarters) and red (right quarters) by a white diamond charged with a blue emblem..
Ivan Sache, 18 November 2018