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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]
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 ...
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.
the "Normandie" has at full speed trouble with heck vibrations from the screws. It was rebuilt in winter 1935/36 and fitted with new designed 4 bladed screws in 1938. now the vibrations reduced. also from 1936 the French line plans to build a little greater sister ship to the Normandie, planed name was "Bretagne". 11:35, 5.Aug.2005, DEF
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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 ...