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nel 1887: Savoie o La Savoie, o Savoia? by Raffaella Matera
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Della nave del viaggio è conosciuto soltanto il nome:"Savoie" che effettuava i suoi viaggi in Sud America nell'anno che interessa e cioè il 1887. Inizialmente era legittimo pensare ad un errore di trascrizione del nome, invece dalle ricerche effettuate sul web, di questa nave che ha trasportato tanti emigranti si hanno poche tracce. Essa è presente soprattutto nella memoria dei discendenti, citata nei loro websites personali. In qualche lista di sbarco è citata, . Inoltre sono presenti altre navi con un nome simile: "La Savoie" e perfino una nave "Savoia" italiana ed una nave "Savoia" tedesco-americana. Dal patronimico della nave si comprende che le prime due sono francesi, mentre la seconda è italiana. Quale è quella giusta. Si è certi trattarsi della nave (navio o vapor) Savoie. by Raffaella Matera |
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Ecco la nostra nave Savoie (navio o vapor) che in quegli anni faceva rotta per il Sudamerica
Société Générale de Transport Maritimes / Compagnie de Navigation France-Amerique (Cie. France-Amerique Line was a subsidiary company set up in 1907) SGTM was founded at Marseilles in 1865 to run a service to Sete and Algeria and started a South America service in 1867. BOURGOGNE was their first ship on this run. They became a major passenger company on this route, and later commenced calls at Italian ports. The company suffered severely in WWI but rebuilt their fleet between the wars. They ceased passenger operations in 1964 mostly due to competition from air travel. You may be able to obtain photos from one of the French Maritime Museums. You can find a list of museums at - http://www.maritimemuseums.net/ This company also owned the cargo steamer MONT BLANC which they sold in 1907. This was one of the ships involved in the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
ed altro......... La SGTM est née en 1865 pour importer du minerai de fer d'Algérie en France. Dès 1867, elle ouvre des lignes avec l'Amérique du Sud puis en 1914 avec les Antilles. Toujours à la pointe du progrès, elle est durement éprouvée par les deux conflits mondiaux. Elle disparaît du paysage maritime en 1964 lors de la première grande concentration de la marine marchande. ed altro ancora.........
The Société Générale des Transports Maritimes company, based in Marseilles, was directed in 1906 by Hubert Giraud (1865-1934), the son-in-law of Nicolas Paquet. In 1924, the company name was changed to Société Générale des Transports Maritimes à Vapeur. Vapeur means "steam". This semantic change was parallel to the major change in deep-sea transportation, i.e. from sailing ships to steamers. Sources:
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Ecco una nave Savoia: ma il suo varo fu solo nel 1898.... Hamburg-American Packet Company / Hamburg-American Line Formed in 1847, the Packet Company sailed from Hamburg to New York via Southampton. In the early years sailing time was about 40 days, Hamburg to New York. In 1875 the company took over the Adler Line, and in 1886, amalgamated with the Carr-Union Line. They assumed control of the passenger management of Hamburg-South America Line, German East Africa Line and Hansa Line's Canadian service in 1888. The five vessels of the Eagle Line were purchased when that company collapsed and, about 1890, they took over the Hansa Line. In 1930 Hapag Lloyd Union was formed with North German Lloyd, and in 1970, the company combined with North German Lloyd to become Hapag-Lloyd AG. By 1872 the company was making weekly passages to New York and had extended their service to include Baltimore, the West Indies, Mexico, South American, China, Japan and Australia. Service was extended about 1873 to include routes from Hamburg, Antwerp and Montreal in the summer and Hamburg, Antwerp and Boston in the winter. To avoid competition in the Mediterranean the Hamburg-American and the North German Lloyd Line agreed to run a joint service in that area. They sailed from Algiers, Naples and Genoa to New York.
Una cartolina dalla nave Savoie
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Un'altra nave Savoia, anche questa iniziò a navigare dopo il 1887, esattamente dieci anni dopo, ossia nel 1897...
La Veloce Navigazione Italiana a Vapore
La Veloce Navigazione Italiana a Vapore was founded in 1884 to run services between Italy and South America but can be indirectly traced back to 1865 when Giovanni Lavello started a line of small wooden steamers. A regular North Atlantic service to New York started in 1901 and continued until 1916. Occasional New York sailings occurred between 1919 and 1922 when the service closed. The company was dissolved in 1924 and their remaining ships were taken over by Navigazione Generale Italiana.
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Ma, con un nome simile, preceduto dall'articolo "La", c'era un'altra nave, esattamente : "La Savoie"appartenente alla: Compagnie Generale Transatlantique - French Line Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) was founded in 1861. The company began sailing in 1862 from Havre to Mexico and in 1864 they added a services from Havre to New York. They also sailed to Canada via Plymouth, plyed the Mediterranean and they had routes to the West Indies. The vessels averaged 8 days to New York. In 1880 CGT took over Cie Valery Eugene Pereire and their Mediterranean service and 12 ships. They purchased Cie Franco-Tunisienne and their three ships in 1907. Cie Havraise Peninsulaire was acquired in 1915 and in 1916 they formed a subsidiary company Cie Generale d'Armements Maritimes (CGAM) in partnership with Cie Chargeurs Reunis. In 1917 Cie Navale de l'Oceanie was acquired with five ships. By 1919 they controlled Cie d'Orbigny, Societe Plisson, Societe des Vapeurs de Charge and Societe Marseillaise d'Armament Fritsche & Cie. They were also a major shareholder in the Fabre Line. In 1973 CGT merged with Cie des Messageries Maritimes to form Cie Generale Maritime. Routes -
La Savoie in partenza da Le Havre "La Savoie" iniziò a navigare dal 1900... "LA
SAVOIE" 1900 |
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Storia recente della Société Générale de Transport Maritimes S.G.T.M.
You may think you know all about this ship, and where she is from and who she was. But intuition and experience tells me you've got every chance in the world of getting it wrong. S.G.T.M. are the initials of the company that ordered her construction and first owned her. That's the Societé Générale des Transportes Maritimes to me and any or all of you who speak French. Like her sister BRETAGNE, this ship came down the ways at the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson yards in Newcastle in 1950. These French ships were built in Britain because French yards were so busy rebuilding their merchant marine after World War II that there were simply no building ways for S.G.T.M's order for this pair of 16,000 ton passenger and migrant liners for the Europe to South America run. This ship entered service in 1951 as the PROVENCE and like her sister, she carried 157 in first class, 167 in tourist class, and 978 in third....470 of those housed in large open dormitories. The PROVENCE proved the stuff she was made of in 1954, when the Liberian tanker SAXONSEA crashed into her in the River Plate. It was a terrible crash and any other ship so badly damaged would probably have been lost, but this one was so strongly built that she was reparable. As it was, she was out of work for over a year, but she came back better than ever. As Italy's Costa Line began its incremental expansion in the late 1950s, they shored up their position in their competition against state run Italian Line by entering into working agreements with other and less powerful firms. In S.G.T.M., Costa found a good partner and within a very short time was really the force behind the passenger operation of the PROVENCE and BRETAGNE. Fast forward to 1962....Costa chartered the PROVENCE outright but before this new joint operation started, the ship was altered and a third swimming pool built. It was the first of many rebuildings, some of them all encompassing, that would be lavished on this ship. Around that same time American, charter cruise outfit Caribbean Cruise Lines chartered the BRETAGNE. She made a series of cruises from the U.S., and then went back to the South America Line. Meanwhile, the PROVENCE worked the South American service as always and though Caribbean Cruise Lines chartered the BRETAGNE for the 1963 season, Chandris showed up on the scene and wrote a bigger check and bought her. At first it looked like the new owners would allow the ship to fulfill her cruising commitment, and Chandris delivered the ship to Caribbean Cruise Line who obligingly airbrushed in Chandris' funnel colors and distinctive white "X" on their folders, and advertised cruises on the S.S. BRITTANY. Bought not for cruising, but for their, Europe/Australia line the BRITTANY's summer of 1963 cruise season from New York was canceled, and Caribbean Cruise Lines hurriedly arranged to charter the sister ship PROVENCE. These machinations forced them to sacrifice but one ten day cruise.. Sad to say that while at the Skaramangas yards, refitting to better suit Chandris' Australia line, the BRITTANY she was hit by lightening. Her remains were sold for scrap. Much luckier was the PROVENCE. After finishing her cruises from New York, she returned to Costa's operation and when France's overseas passenger companies began whittling down their money losing passenger ships to a precious few, S.G.T.M. found Costa a willing buyer. In 1965, she became the ENRICO C.. Costa immediately had her interiors altered, and she re entered service in 1966, if every bed and upper were used, she was then able to sleep 218 passengers in first class, and up to 980 in tourist. Costa Line also abandoned the expensive passenger line between Genoa and Buenos Aires, limiting it after 1972 to one or two sailings a year performed by flagship EUGENIO C. and ENRICO C... From 1972, with her capacity limited to 750, the ENRICO C. was employed as a full time cruise ship. Over the next fifteen years, she made quite a good name for herself among Italian travelers... and many passengers of other nationalities came to love her too. Her name was changed to ENRICO COSTA in 1987, and in 1990, when you would expect a ship of her years to be quietly sold off for scrap, Costa invested a small fortune in her, thoroughly refitting her accommodations, and arranging her to carry a maximum of 845 passengers in 332 cabins. It was curious that Costa took such a direction with this veteran, because those were the days when the company set on the road that eventually led them to sell fifty per cent of their shares to Carnival....the incorporation of new ships and a totally new look. Refitted as she was, the ENRICO COSTA didn't quite fit into the new fleet even though some of her better cabins were redecorated to look like the cabins in the COSTA ALLEGRA. But the ENRICO COSTA turned out to be a perfect ship for Starlauro of Naples, who bought her December, 1994, and she began cruising as SYMPHONY in the spring of 1995....on the popular seven day western Mediterranean itinerary. Hen Starlauro became MSC, she passed over to the cruise ship fleet of MSC in October, 1995, and has since carried many thousands of happy passengers. The spring of 2000 saw her begin a new career…as the AEGEAN SPIRIT…one of the three ships in the fleet of Greece's Golden Sun Cruises…On a five year charter with an option to purchase, Golden Sun has changed a few things…like her flag and crew…and it seemed to me that someone had literally taken a vacuum cleaner to rival Royal Olympic's (ROC) STELLA SOLARIS, ODYSSEUS and TRITON and sucked up the best officers, staff and crew and dropped them all here… Her Master, Captain Apostolos Kanaris was the last Greek Captain of the STELLA MARIS II, her Chief Purser, Aleko Tsamados, 25 year veteran of Epirotiki and Royal Olympic spent most of the 90s as chief on the TRITON before going for two years to the STELLA SOLARIS, the chef came from the ODYSSEUS as did Chief Steward Takis Diamandis, the Asst. Maitre d'Hotel came from the SOLARIS, bartenders came from the ODYSSEUS, TRITON and SOLARIS…and let's not forget Cruise Director Marion Buitelaar, Dutch beauty…she previously worked the SOLARIS, ODYSSEUS, WORLD RENAISSANCE and a few other ROC ships. Sun Line, Epirotiki Line and ROC past passengers will find many familiar faces here onboard the AEGEAN SPIRIT…Fonte |
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