Worms & Cie.

Latest publications

• 50 years of shipbuilding on the banks of the Seine - the ACSM & their garden city - 1917-1972

  This book, whose edition was revised and expanded in February 2021, is devoted to the history of Ateliers et Chantiers de la Seine-Maritime from their foundation in 1916-1917 to their merger with the Chantiers Navals de La Ciotat in 1966, then to their final closure on December 31, 1972. It also endeavours to retrace the life of the garden city to which the ACSM gave birth...

• Hypolite Worms' London Mission – November 1939-July 1940

  On 23 November 1939, Hypolite Worms was appointed Head of the French Delegation to the Permanent French-English Maritime Transport Executive Committee, based in London. In cooperation with the Ministry of Shipping, he negotiates the chartering of the neutral vessels needed to cover the country's import requirements...  

• The tribulations of the steamer Sephora in the Red Sea – 1873-1874 (in French)

  On 21th August 1873, Hypolite Worms launches in the Red Sea the veteran of his fleet, the steamer "Sephora", in order to establish the first regular navigation line under the French flag. This adventure will end sixteen months later, on 16th December 1874. Sixteen months, during which the "Sephora" will make about fifteen crossings and will face a number of hardships and mishaps...

• On 11th January 1918, the cargo ship Barsac is wrecked in front of Le Havre with its load of nickel (in French)

  On 9 January 1918, after nearly three months of procrastination between the ministries of the Navy, Public Works and War, the steamer "Barsac" of the company Worms, embarked by transhipment four fifths of the 2,880 tons (2,300 tons) of "nickel-bearing earth", transported from New Caledonia to Brest by "Admiral Halgan"...