COMPAGNIE DE NAVIGATION FRAISSINET.

The early references attribute these liveries to successive Fraissinet names. For F256, Griffin and LJC 1909 differ from other sources by placing a dot under IE.

The two house flags are based on the Dutch national flag, commemorating the family’s exile in the Netherlands after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. FOTW places the letters closer together than the Bois illustrations.

The Pavillon website also shows a long pennant with horizontal red, white and blue stripes meeting at the point, without identifying its source or use.

US Navy 1961 and the Pavillon website omit the dots after the flag’s letters.

Marc Fraissinet founded Compagnie Fraissinet in January 1836. Marc Fraissinet & Cie., formed in May 1843, was absorbed into Compagnie Marseillaise de Navigation à Vapeur in 1853. The business ceased operations during the Franco-Prussian War and resumed in 1874 as Nouvelle Société Maritime de Navigation à Vapeur (Compagnie Fraissinet). It absorbed the Corsican Morelli concern in 1892. The change to Compagnie de Navigation Fraissinet is dated to 1935 in the principal account and to 1937 in Merchant Ships. Jean Fraissinet succeeded his father Alfred in 1927 and married Mathilde Cyprien-Fabre. Fraissinet, Fabre and Chargeurs Réunis opened common agencies in 1930; Paul Cyprien-Fabre joined Fraissinet’s board in 1933. The biographical account dates control of Fabre to 1937, followed by merger in 1955. Roland Fraissinet succeeded Jean in 1958.

Compagnie Consignation Maritime was formed in 1959, and Fraissinet took control of Société de Transports Maritimes à Vapeur in 1960. Successive combinations with Fabre, Société Générale des Transports Maritimes and Chargeurs Réunis did not sustain the business. The source dates the lowering of the flag to 1968 and withdrawal from shipping to 1974.

France, Marseilles.