Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
The Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM) was a French
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
- Numancia (1865) — first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth
- HNLMS Schorpioen (1868) An ironclad that is now a museum ship
- Puigcerdá (1874)
- Brazilian monitor Solimões (1875)
- French cruiser Forfait (1879)
- Navarhos Miaoulis (1879)
- Spanish ironclad battleship Pelayo(1888)
- Capitán Prat (1889)
- Spetsai (1889)
- Chilean cruiser Presidente Errázuriz (1890)
- Chilean cruiser Presidente Pinto (1890) - shipwreck 1905
- Matsushima (1890)
- Itsukushima (1890)
- Zaragoza (1891)
- Haitian gunboat Alexandre-Pétion (1893)
- Svetlana (1896)
- D'Entrecasteaux (1896) — since 1927 Polish barracks ship ORP Bałtyk
- Bayan (1900)
- Russian pre-dreadnought Tsesarevich (1902)
- 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 submarine Monge (1929)
- Montcalm (1935)
- Norwegian cruise ship Sagafjord (1965) — later the British Saga Rose
- Dutch / Dutch Antilles LPG-tanker Antilla Bay, #1396, (1973)
External links
- Media related to Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée at Wikimedia Commons
- 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, vol. 7