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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]
Suspicion about Mafia sabotage in the fire and sinking of Normandie (renamed Lafayette for war service), led to Operation Underworld. In the first three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S. lost 120 merchant ships to German U-boats and surface raiders in the Battle of the Atlantic, and in February 1942 the ocean liner SS Normandie, a captured French ...
He was one of 1016 prisoners savagely burned to death by Nazi SS troops. Gardelegen, Germany; 16 April 1945" The Gardelegen massacre was a massacre perpetrated by the locals ( Volkssturm , Hitlerjugend and local firefighters) of the northern German town of Gardelegen , with direction from the SS , near the end of World War II .
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.
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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
SS Normandy: Operator: 1910–1912: London, Brighton and South Coast Railway; 1912–1918: London and South Western Railway; Port of registry: Builder: Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull: Launched: 12 May 1910: Fate: Torpedoed and sunk 25 January 1918: General characteristics; Tonnage: 618 gross register tons (GRT) Length: 192 feet (59 m) Beam: 29.2 ...