Compagnie Générale Transatlantique

Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT), also called French Line, was a French shipping line which operated ocean liners on the Transatlantic Route, it was founded by the Péreire Brothers in 1861, it would merge with Messageries Maritimes and then with Compagnie Générale Maritime in 1996 to form CMA CGM.
Among his fleet, he had the Ocean liners: SS "La Bourgogne", which would sink south of Sable Island in Nova Scotia in 1899, and the SS "Grandcamp", which would cause the Texas City Disaster in 1947, and for having had the ocean liners SS "Paris", SS "France" (1912), SS "Île de France", SS "Normandie" and the SS "France" of 1961.