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From Wedge's "Brown's Flags and Funnels" 1940

        (MM) CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
Australia Service 1881-1914

            (The website "www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/e/mm.htm" contains photos of
all the Messageries Maritimes ships listed below. Photos of all the ships listed
below are also in Commandant Lanfant's "Historique De La Flotte Des
Messageries Maritimes", (Edition GRAFIC FOTO Dunkerque1979 )

            Natal - iscs 2f3bkn 4,106gt 1881    nmm photo aq No. P.17391
                La Ciotat                        (taken across the quay)
       Photo, PP. 60 & 62, Lanfant
op. cit.

            Caledonien*- iscs 2f3bkn 4,170gt 1882   slsa postcard photo uw
                La Ciotat                       No. B 10534 (1904)
                                       sln postcard print uw
                                                                Digital Order No. a636639
Photo, P.239, Dickson
Gregory's 'Australian
Steamships Past and
Present' (The Richards
Press Ltd, London 1928)
                           Photo, P. .61, Lanfant op. cit.

Melbourne* - iscs 2f3bkn 3,998gt 1881 nla watercolour by H.J. Graham
La Ciotat nla.pic-an6438937
Photo, P. 60, Lanfant op. cit.

            Saghalien - iscs 1f3bkn 4,050gt 1880                 Photo, P. 58, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Sydney* - iscs 2f3bkn 4,128gt 1883                 Photo, P. 62, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Salazie* -iscs 2f3bkn 4,147gt 18    nmm photo ut No. P.17397
                La Ciotat               nla pen & ink drawing by
   G.G. McCrae
                                  nla.pic-an6304082
Photo, P. 63, Lanfant op. cit.

            Yarra* - iscs 2f3bkn 4,142gt 1883                     Photo, p.59, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Oceanien* - iscs 2f3bkn 4,162gt 1885                Photo, P. 64, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Australien - stscs 2fb3kn 6,570gt 1890                Photo, P. 78, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Polynesien - stscs 2f3bkn 6,363gt 1890    sln photo uw
            La Ciotat Digital Order No. a639172
   Photo, P. 78, Lanfant op. cit.

            Dordogne - iscs 1f2bgn 3,723gt 1888                     See website for picture
                Graville

Armand Behic -stscs 2f3bkn 6,635gt Photo P.239, Dickson
1892 La Ciotat Gregory, op. cit.
Photo, P. 79, Lanfant op. cit.

Ville de la Ciotat - stscs 2f3bkn 6,631gt                Photo, P. 80, Lanfant op.cit.
                1892 La Ciotat

            Annam -stscs 2f2m 6,300gt 1898           nmm photo No. P.8796
                La Ciotat Photo, P. 89, Lanfant op. cit.

            Tonkin - stscs 2f2m 6,092gt 1898                        Photo, P. 89, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Ernest Simons - stscs 4,562gt 1893                     Photo, P. 80, Lanfant op. cit.
                La Ciotat

            Dumbea (ex-Bresil) - stscs 2f3bkn       nmm photo No. P.17361
                5,809gt 1888 La Ciotat           (in Suez Canal - described
as “very distant and a little
unsharp”)
                                                           slq photo uw
Image No. 130426
   Photo, P. 75, Lanfant, op. cit.

Nera (ex-La Plata) - stscs 2f3bkn Photo, P. 74, Lanfant op. cit.
5,824gt 1888 La Ciotat

* Sister ships of Saghalien but with two funnels.

Ship details from Duncan Haws' "Merchant Fleets 36: Messageries
Maritimes", (printed by Wye Valley Printers, 1999)

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