It had territorial branches in each of the four territories of AEF (Gabon, Moyen-Congo, Oubangui-Chari and Chad).
The ship was then dismantled and hauled by African laborers through the forest to reach navigable portions of the Oubangui, where he founded the French station at Fort-Archambault near one of Sultan Rabih az-Zubayr's major towns, Kouno (now in the Chari-Baguirmi Region of Chad).