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Last modified: 2025-08-02 by olivier touzeau
Keywords: progemar | societe provencale de gestion maritime | societe provencale de remorquage | letters: spr (blue) | letter: p (blue) | letter: p (black) |
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![[Flag of Progemar]](../images/f/fr~hfsp1.gif)
![[Flag of Progemar]](../images/f/fr~hfsp2.gif)
House flag of Progemar
Left, as shown by Paul Bois (Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988)) [boi03] - Image by Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004
Right, as shown in Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping
Companies of the World (1995) [lgr95] - Image by Jarig Bakker, 17 October 2005
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Société Provençale de Remorquage (SPR) was founded at the end of the 19th century as a competitor of Chambon: there was, however, enough work for two towing companies in Marseilles, SPR remaining slightly less important than Chambon.
In 1923, the SPR contributed to the foundation of the Venture-Weir company (later incorporated to the SPR). SPR founded in Algiers Société Algéro-Provençale de Remorquage seven years later.
After the Second World War, the company modernized its tugboats. The
increase in the size of the ships required even bigger and more powerful tugboats.
In 1967, the company, renamed Société Provençale de Gestion Maritime (Progemar), absorbed several towing companies in ports of the Channel and the Atlantic Ocean, New Caledonia and Reunion. The motherhouse was eventually renamed Nouvelle Société Provençale de Remorquage.
Source: Paul Bois. Armements marseillais - Compagnies de navigation et navires à vapeur (1831-1988), published by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille-Provence [boi03].
Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004
P. Bois [boi03] shows the house flag of Progemar as white with a red border and the blue letter "P" in the middle, whereas Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the World [lgr95] shows it as red with a white square charged with a black "P".
Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004
![[Flag of SPR]](../images/f/fr~hfspr.gif)
House flag of SPR - Imaage by Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004
P. Bois [boi03] shows the house flag of Société Provençale de Remorquage as white with a red border and the blue letters "SPR" in the middle.
Ivan Sache, 20 February 2004
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