Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée

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 and subsequently incorporated in 1856 in the newly established joint stock company Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée founded by Armand Béhic. It eventually had shipyards in La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon, and in Graville, now part of Le Havre. After going into insolvency in 1966, the company was absorbed into the Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée.

The company also produced tanks before World War II, most notably FCM 2C and FCM 36.

Some 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)
• Greek ironclad Spetsai (1889)
• Japanese cruiser Matsushima (1890)
• Japanese cruiser Itsukushima (1890)
• Mexican corvette Zaragoza (1891)
• Russian cruiser Bayan (1900) — later the Japanese cruiser Aso
• Russian pre-dreadnought Tsesarevich (1902)
• Russian cruiser Admiral Makarov (1906)
• British hospital ship Salta (1911)
• French dreadnought Paris (1912)
• French passenger liner Patria (1913) — sunk in the Patria disaster in 1940
• French battleship Béarn (1914) — later converted to an aircraft carrier
• French passenger liner Providence (1915)
• French cruiser Montcalm (1935)
• Norwegian cruise ship Sagafjord (1965) — later the British Saga Rose
• Dutch / Dutch Antilles LPG-tanker Antilla Bay, #1396, (1973)

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