Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée
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The Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée (FCM) was a French shipbuilding company.
The Société des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée was founded in 1853 by Philip Taylor.
A new company, the Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée was founded in 1856.
It had shipyards in La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon and in Granville, near Le Havre.
The company was later merged with other French shipbuilding companies.
[edit] Ships built at Granville
- Greek cruiser Navarhos Miaoulis (1879)
- Russian pre-Dreadnought Tsessarevitch (1902)
- French Dreadnought Paris (1912)
- French carrier Béarn (1914)
- many others