NOUVELLE SOCIÉTÉ PROVENÇALE DE REMORQUAGE.

S917 is documented by Lloyds 1912 and the later French livery sources.

Société Provençale originated at the end of the nineteenth century, dated 1899 by Pavillon. It helped form Venture-Weir in 1923 and Société Alegéro-Provençale de Remorquage in Algiers in 1930. A 1967 reorganisation into Progemar absorbed other towing businesses, with the parent becoming Nouvelle Société Provençale; the wider history gives Progemar’s formation as 1968. By 1996–97 the local concern was Les Abeilles Marseilles. A port-authority towing joint venture with Chambon is recorded in 1971.

France, Marseilles.