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House flag of the Comptoir Général des Transports - Image by Ivan Sache, 27 February 2004
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After 20 years of involvement in ship chartering, Marc Vicenzini founded its own shipping company in 1951 to trade with North African
trade. The first ship of the company was a second-hand cargo ship, MS
Ville-de-Bastia. Then, Vicenzini bought a series of cargo ships from
Dutch (Schiedam, Kinderdijk and Alblasserdam) and French (Nantes)
shipyards. Most of these ships were named xxx-V., where xxx was a feminine surname.
The independence war of Algeria ruined Vicenzini. In 1961, he
could not pay the bill for MS Yvonne-V. and got bankrupted. Seized, MS Yvonne-V. and her sister-ship Danielle-V. remained
onshore until sold by auction in 1968.
Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].
Ivan Sache, 27 February 2004
P. Bois shows the house flag of the Comptoir Général des Transports as vertically divided blue-white-red, the white part being hexagonal and charged with the black, interlaced letters "M V", the owner's
Ivan Sache, 27 February 2004