World War 1 & Post war
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| ====World War 1 & Post war==== | ====World War 1 & Post war==== |
| During the First World War, the company lost a large part of its fleet, as did most of the shipping companies of the Entente powers. | During the First World War, the company lost a large part of its fleet, as did most of the shipping companies of the Entente powers. |
| After the war, an extensive new building program was started. The ship that are loss in the war were replaced by larger and more luxurious liners and the newly opened Panama Canal was added to the route network at the beginning of the 1920s. During this time, [[Georges Philippar]] was President of Messageries Maritimes. He was a great admirer of [[Alexandre Dumas]] and made sure that on every ship on the line there was something reminiscent of the writer; four ships were named after [[The Three Musketeers]]. In 1932, {{MS|Georges Philippar||2}} caught fire on her maiden voyage and sank in the [[Gulf of Aden]] with the loss of 54 lives. The ship was named after [[Georges Philippar]] the CEO of the company. | After the war, an extensive new building program was started. The ship that were loss in the war were replaced by larger and more luxurious liners and the newly opened Panama Canal was added to the route network at the beginning of the 1920s. During this time, [[Georges Philippar]] was President of Messageries Maritimes. He was a great admirer of [[Alexandre Dumas]] and made sure that on every ship on the line there was something reminiscent of the writer; four ships were named after [[The Three Musketeers]]. In 1932, {{MS|Georges Philippar||2}} caught fire on her maiden voyage and sank in the [[Gulf of Aden]] with the loss of 54 lives. The ship was named after [[Georges Philippar]] the CEO of the company. |
| ===World War 2=== | ===World War 2=== |
Okumaya devam et...