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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.
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions .
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 ...
The company's flagships, from SS La Champagne to SS Normandie to SS France, were built for this route, which brought in more than half of the revenues of the company. [83] This did not prevent the liners from taking part, in the off-season, in cruises, such as the Mediterranean cruises of SS La Provence , the around-the world cruise of the ...
People line up with their blood types at St. Vincent Hospital September 11, 2001 in New York City after two airplanes slammed into the twin towers in an alleged terrorist attack.
The link includes numerous images of museum items from Normandie that appeared in a museum exhibit "Hommage au Normandie" at the French Consulate in New York City (that later travelled to Miami at the Bass Museum of Art) that was regarded by the New Yorker Magazine (August 3, 1992, page 25, link to article below) as "the largest concentration ...
A final photo has emerged of North Carolina grandparents on the roof of their home, surrounded by floodwaters, minutes before they drowned due to Hurricane Helene. Jessica Drye Turner’s family ...