This list records vessels that served with the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (French Line) at any point in their careers, including ships built for other owners and those later acquired, transferred, requisitioned, chartered, or awarded to CGT. The table documents each vessel’s original identity, builder, CGT‑related name, CGT service period, and ultimate fate.
It also includes vessels that served under CGT ownership, operation, or management while nominally belonging to associated entities such as Compagnie Générale d’Armements Maritimes (CGAM), Compagnie de Navigation Sud‑Atlantique, Compagnie Générale Transméditerranéenne (CGTM), Red Funnel, and Compagnie Canadienne Transatlantique, where CGT exercised direct managerial, operational, or commercial control.
This list is a working compilation and may be expanded or corrected as additional contemporary sources are located. The table is therefore maintained as a live document reflecting the best information presently available.
Exclusions This list records only a summary of periods of service under CGT ownership, operation, or management. Vessels whose careers lie entirely outside CGT auspices — including service solely under other owners, joint‑venture partners, subsidiary companies, or successor entities — are excluded.
Where a vessel served under CGT at any point in its career, only its CGT service is recorded here; earlier and later careers fall outside the scope of this list and are documented in the standard commercial sources noted below.
Successor entity In 1976 the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique was merged into the newly created Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM), which became the legal successor to CGT. Middlemiss’s historical summary indicates that the transfer of CGT’s remaining fleet and subsidiaries into CGM was largely complete by 1979, with full integration achieved in 1980.
As this list records only periods of service under CGT ownership, operation, or management, vessels whose service lies solely under CGM or later successor entities are excluded. Where Middlemiss extends a vessel’s CGT service beyond 1979, the service period has been standardised to end in 1979 to avoid implying CGT’s continued operation after its practical absorption into CGM.
Further reading This table is not a full commercial history of the vessels listed; it records builders, fates, and periods of service under CGT ownership, operation, or management. For complete commercial histories — including more detailed careers before, during and after CGT service — readers should consult the standard commercial sources:
• Middlemiss, Merchant Fleets: French Lines
• Lloyd’s Register and Bureau Veritas
• Digitised newspaper archives (RetroNews, BNA, Gallica, etc.)