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The freight agents E. Caillol and H. Saintpierre founded in 1875 a shipping company to serve scheduled lines between Marseilles and Spain, Corsica, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, the Black Sea and Egypt. In 1902, Saintpierre withdrew from the company and was succeded by Duvillard.
In 1904, L. de Montravel and E. Roche, who already owned jointly a ship,
took the control of the company, which was renamed in 1906 Compagnie
Méditerranéenne de Navigation, with great ambitions. They bought in
1904 a series of small liners, SS Gallia, Corsica, Iberia, Italia and
Numidia, named after the line they were allocated to, and in 1905 a
series of three cargo ships, SS Monte-d'Oro, Tavignano and Vizzavone,
named after Corsican toponyms.
However, the company had bitten off more than it could chew, and had to
sold most of its fleet in 1907. The company was renamed