Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée

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 and subsequently incorporated in 1856 in the newly established joint stock company Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée founded by Armand Béhic. It eventually had shipyards in La Seyne-sur-Mer, near Toulon, and in Graville, now part of Le Havre. After going into insolvency in 1966, the company was absorbed into the Constructions industrielles de la Méditerranée.

The company also produced tanks before World War II, most notably FCM 2C and FCM 36.

Some ships built

 * SPANISH IRONCLAD Numancia (1865) — first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth
 * HNLMS Schorpioen (1868) An ironclad that is now a museum ship
 * SPANISH MONITOR Puigcerdá (1874)
 * Brazilian monitor Solimões (1875)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Forfait (1879)
 * GREEK CRUISER Navarhos Miaoulis (1879)
 * Spanish ironclad battleship SPANISH BATTLESHIP Pelayo (1888)
 * CHILEAN BATTLESHIP Capitán Prat (1889)
 * GREEK IRONCLAD Spetsai (1889)
 * Chilean cruiser Presidente Errázuriz (1890)
 * Chilean cruiser Presidente Pinto (1890) - shipwreck 1905
 * JAPANESE CRUISER Matsushima (1890)
 * JAPANESE CRUISER Itsukushima (1890)
 * MEXICAN CORVETTE Zaragoza (1891)
 * Haitian gunboat Alexandre-Pétion (1893)
 * RUSSIAN CRUISER Svetlana (1896)
 * FRENCH CRUISER D'Entrecasteaux (1896) — since 1927 Polish barracks ship ORP Bałtyk
 * RUSSIAN CRUISER Bayan (1900)
 * Russian pre-dreadnought RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Tsesarevich (1902)
 * RUSSIAN CRUISER Admiral Makarov (1906)
 * British hospital ship HMHS Salta (1911)
 * French dreadnought FRENCH BATTLESHIP Paris (1912)
 * French passenger liner SS Patria (1913) (1913) — sunk in the Patria disaster in 1940
 * French battleship FRENCH AIRCRAFT CARRIER Béarn (1914) — later converted to an aircraft carrier
 * French passenger liner SS Providence (1915) (1915)
 * French submarine FRENCH SUBMARINE Monge (1929)
 * FRENCH CRUISER Montcalm (1935)
 * Norwegian cruise ship Sagafjord (1965) — later the British Saga Rose
 * Dutch / Dutch Antilles LPG-tanker Antilla Bay, #1396, (1973)