SOCIÉTÉ NATIONALE MARITIME CORSE MÉDITERRANÉE.

C701 — *image by Ivan Sache, 23 May 20000; revised 29 February 2004*

S744 — *image by Ivan Sache, 1 March 2004*

S1697 — *image by Ivan Sache, 1 March 2004*

Sources disagree over the dashes beneath the small ie letter groups. Armements Marseillais omits them; the Armateurs website retains them. Ivan Sache’s FOTW drawing was revised in February 2004 to remove them.

The earlier SNCM flag is blue-white-blue with red SNCM lettering in the white stripe. Bois shows a wider white band, whereas the FOTW version has equal bands and consequently smaller letters; Rosanoski identifies this as an error. The sloping logotype derives from SNCF’s contemporary logo. An Armateurs photograph appears to show upright letters.

The logo is described as light and dark blue by Armements Marseillais and the company website. Published funnel illustrations support S97, but ship photographs appear to support S743. Napoleon Bonaparte confirms the S97 starboard arrangement, with S912 on the port side and no apparent top in the modern funnel design. Ile de Beaute shows S912 with a narrow blue top.