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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.
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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 Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the frozen mud at Pier 88 in the winter of 1942. The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal is a ship terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City. [3]
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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.
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 ...
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 ...