Meeting Of Maritime Messengers, Voyages April 1900 And July 1903

A small collection of four first-class menus from the Messageries Maritimes, used in 1900 and 1903. Three small menu cards are included, probably second or third class, with an advertisement for La Bénédictine. An amusing bestiary is used to entertain passengers. As they were used, the menu can be viewed on board first class. The Sydney was launched in 1892 at La Ciotat and served the Far East line to Shanghai, then the Indian Ocean line from 1913. It was demolished in 1922. The Sinai was launched on the Seine in 1898, and assigned to the Tonkin line (serving Saigon and Haiphong from Dunkirk, with a stopover in Marseille). It was requisitioned during the war of 1914 and torpedoed in the Mediterranean in 1916, while picking up passengers from the Magellan, also a victim of German submarines.