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Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique
Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique was a French shipping company prominent in the South American routes.
In July 1912 a new convention was entered into between the French government and the Societe d'Etudes de Navigation, a nominal concessionaire, which ceded its rights to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique. Messageries Maritimes, had held the contracts for the South American routes since 1860, but had done very little since 1904 to improve their South American service regarding it as not particularly profitable, though the speed of Messageries ships was also an issue.
The contract, signed on 11 July 1911, was for 25 years beginning 22 July 1912 and provided for a subsidised postal service, with round trip voyages every two weeks between Bordeaux, Lisbon, Dakar, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
In addition the company was required to operate a non-subsidised commercial service with voyages at least once per month between Bordeaux, Dakar, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires by vessels of not less than 4,000 tons cargo capacity and not less than 11 knots average speed.
Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique was launched in early 1912, its capital being 15 million francs (£600,000).
As a precondition (art.26) for the subsidised contract and to ensure that sufficient ships were in service to provide a reliable mail service, the company was required to build, in France, four passenger liners of a minimum displacement of 11,000 tonnes, able to maintain a minimum speed of 15 knots between Bordeaux and Lisbon, and 18 knots between Lisbon and Buenos Aires. with a minimum length of 175 metres and provide six paquebots mixtes (passenger freighters).
The new company placed orders for new ships, with Chantiers de l'Atlantique at St. Nazaire for the 14,581 GRT Lutetia and with Forges & Chantiers de la Mediterranee at La Seyne for a similar ship, Gallia, both to be delivered in 1913. The third ship was Massilia, also built at La Seyne and launched in 1914, but not completed until 1920. Gallia was able to make the passage from Bordeaux to Buenos Aires in 15 days.
To achieve the promised service levels, (while the new-builds were advancing) the agreement (art.97) allowed that, temporarily, the company might operate vessels of 9,000 tons displacement at a speed of 14 knots from Buenos Aires to Lisbon and 15 knots from Lisbon to Buenos Aires and two of the vessels might be of foreign construction.
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Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique
Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique was a French shipping company prominent in the South American routes.
In July 1912 a new convention was entered into between the French government and the Societe d'Etudes de Navigation, a nominal concessionaire, which ceded its rights to Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique. Messageries Maritimes, had held the contracts for the South American routes since 1860, but had done very little since 1904 to improve their South American service regarding it as not particularly profitable, though the speed of Messageries ships was also an issue.
The contract, signed on 11 July 1911, was for 25 years beginning 22 July 1912 and provided for a subsidised postal service, with round trip voyages every two weeks between Bordeaux, Lisbon, Dakar, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires.
In addition the company was required to operate a non-subsidised commercial service with voyages at least once per month between Bordeaux, Dakar, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires by vessels of not less than 4,000 tons cargo capacity and not less than 11 knots average speed.
Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique was launched in early 1912, its capital being 15 million francs (£600,000).
As a precondition (art.26) for the subsidised contract and to ensure that sufficient ships were in service to provide a reliable mail service, the company was required to build, in France, four passenger liners of a minimum displacement of 11,000 tonnes, able to maintain a minimum speed of 15 knots between Bordeaux and Lisbon, and 18 knots between Lisbon and Buenos Aires. with a minimum length of 175 metres and provide six paquebots mixtes (passenger freighters).
The new company placed orders for new ships, with Chantiers de l'Atlantique at St. Nazaire for the 14,581 GRT Lutetia and with Forges & Chantiers de la Mediterranee at La Seyne for a similar ship, Gallia, both to be delivered in 1913. The third ship was Massilia, also built at La Seyne and launched in 1914, but not completed until 1920. Gallia was able to make the passage from Bordeaux to Buenos Aires in 15 days.
To achieve the promised service levels, (while the new-builds were advancing) the agreement (art.97) allowed that, temporarily, the company might operate vessels of 9,000 tons displacement at a speed of 14 knots from Buenos Aires to Lisbon and 15 knots from Lisbon to Buenos Aires and two of the vessels might be of foreign construction.