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SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.
Immediately upstream of this lies the Normandie dry dock, between the Bassin de St Nazaire and the Loire, with its southern end giving on to the Loire and the northern end facing into the Bassin de Penhoët. Built to house the ocean liner SS Normandie, this dock was the largest dry dock in the world when it was completed in 1932. [4]
Vladimir Yourkevitch working on design of SS Normandie. Vladimir Yourkevitch (Russian: Владимир Иванович Юркевич, also spelled Yourkevitch, 1885 in Moscow – December 13, 1964) was a Russian Naval engineer, and a designer of the Ocean Liner SS Normandie. He worked in Russia, France, and the United States.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:SS_Normandie_Pier_88_1941.jpg licensed with PD-USGov-Military-Navy . 2009-11-03T04:52:49Z Altair78 600x336 (144998 Bytes) {{Information |Description={{en|1=During a flight over New York City on 20 August 1941, a photographer in Utility Squadron (VJ) 4 shot this view of Normandie alongside Pier 88 on the Hudson River; the French ...
Early in April, Saboteur was "redflagged" by officials in the War Office who had concerns about the scene involving the SS Normandie (renamed USS Lafayette). Regarding this scene, Hitchcock said: "the Navy raised hell with Universal about these shots because I implied that the Normandie had been sabotaged, which was a reflection on their lack ...
Bulletins de la Société de l'histoire de Normandie: Software used: Internet Archive: Conversion program: Recoded by LuraDocument PDF v2.68: Encrypted: no: Page size: 493 x 835 pts; 462 x 790 pts; 460 x 815 pts; 472 x 843 pts; 468 x 837 pts; 487 x 825 pts; 475 x 825 pts; 464 x 832 pts; 464 x 824 pts; 461 x 830 pts; 457 x 828 pts; 457 x 826 pts ...
But really, as Lafayette, Normandie never moved until scrapping time, and was a wreck longer than it was a functional ship. SchuminWeb 06:09, 29 June 2011 (UTC) Support merge...SS Lafayette was the name used during attempted troopship conversion, and she never served as such. Somewhat akin to SS Ile de France and her brief final name as Furansu ...
French ironclad Normandie, in service 1862–71; Normandie-class battleship, five ships planned for use by the French Navy in World War I but never completed; SS Normandie, an ocean liner in service 1935–39; MV Normandie, a channel ferry built in 1992; French frigate Normandie, an Aquitaine-class frigate serving in the French Navy since 2020