Mail from Marseille - Malta

Abstract

With the advent of steam, on the 2nd July 1835, the French Government set up a State owned steamship service - "SERVICE DES PAQUEBOTS A VAPEUR DE LA MEDITERRANEE", inaugurated on the 7th April 1937, to operate between Marseille and the Levant, calling en route at Malta. On the 7th April 1837, a notice was issued containing the following information: "A regular paquebots ship service would start as from the 1st of May 1837, between Marseille and ports in the Levant. The departure and return would be every ten days without interruption, departing from Marseilles on the 1st, 11th, 21st, and return from Constantinople every 6th, 16th, 26th, every month, stopping at: Livourne, Civita-Vecchia, Naples, MALTHE, Syra, Smyrne, and returning by the same route".