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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 ...
Follow live updates here. It took about seven seconds for the ripple effects to carry across the 1.6-mile length of the bridge. Some parts of the massive structure were sent underwater.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge toppled shortly before 1:30 a.m. ET Tuesday when the Dali, a 213-million-pound loaded cargo vessel, lost power while trying to leave the port and smashed into one of ...
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says it’s too soon to say how long it will take to reopen the Port of Baltimore or replace the destroyed bridge. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Gautier says ...
A container ship, MV Dali, struck a support column of the bridge. The collapse was caught on video. [183] Paninsky Bridge Vyazma, Smolensk Oblast: Russia 8 April 2024 Concrete road bridge over railway line Dilapidated condition of the bridge, possibly in combination with ground subsidence during the thaw. 1 killed, 6 injured
Watch live aerial views of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, after it collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday morning (26 March). A container ship crashed into the structure at ...