![[Flag of Compagnie Maritime France-Afrique]](../images/f/fr~hfcff.gif)
by Ivan Sache
Last modified: 2004-10-02 by ivan sache
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The Compagnie Maritime France-Afrique existed from 1929 to 1935. At the end of the First World War, Marius Valoussière founded a shipping company with his associates Brignaudy and Lieutaud. The company operated a few small sailing boats. In 1922, the fleet of the French Navy was modernized and several obsolete ships were sold. Valoussière purchased SS Sarneio, Alsace, Mektoub, Pythéas and Albâtre from the Navy.
In 1929, Valoussière and his new associate, Arnaud, founded the
Compagnie Marseillaise d'Armement, de Gérance et d'Entreprises
Maritimes (CMAGERM), renamed the same year Compagnie Maritime
France-Afrique since the lines of the company served Algeria.
In 1935, Valoussière and Arnaud founded the Société Nouvelle de
Cabotage and extended their lines to the French coasts of the Atlantic
Ocean and the Channel. In 1934, Arnaud alone maintained the company,
which ceased to exist in 1950.
Arnaud's flagship, SS La-Macta, had a long and complicated life. The ship was built in 1901 in Glasgow and named Seahound. She was later renamed Freifrau, then Faneronemi. Louis Sicard & Cie bought her in Greece in 1929 and renamed her Guercif. The ship was purchased in 1934 by Arnaud, who renamed her La-Macta. She was then sold to a Greek shipowner in 1938 and took the successive names of Mykonos, Efterpi, Alexandros-A, Efterpi (back) and Liese. She was eventually sold in Israel and renamed Elisa. The ship ended her career in 1951, after a service of 50 years under 10 different names.
Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2004
The house flag of Compagnie Maritime France-Afrique is horizontally divided red-white-red with the black letters CMFA and a red star in the white stripe.
Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].
Ivan Sache, 22 February 2004