Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
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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.
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Industry | Shipping |
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Founded | 1861; 163 years ago (1861) |
Founder | Péreire brothers |
Defunct | 1976 (1976) |
Fate | Merged with Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes to form the Compagnie Générale Maritime |
Successor | CMA CGM |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Péreire brothers Jules Charles-Roux John Dal Piaz Henri Cangardel Jean Marie Edmond Lanier |
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Among his fleet, he had the Ocean liners: SS La Bourgogne,[1] which would sink south of Sable Island in Nova Scotia in 1899, and the SS Grandcamp,[2] which would cause the Texas City Disaster in 1947, and for having had the ocean liners SS Paris, SS France (1912),[3] SS Île de France,[4] SS Normandie[5] and the SS France of 1961.[6]