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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.
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.
What exactly in the Normandie was 6.50 x 8.00 x 6.00 m, and what is a "single dimension"? --Dashers 10:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC) For her propulsion, Normandie had 4 synchronous motors feeded by 4 turbo alternators (ie synchronous générators) while cruising at full speed during summer.
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]
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
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 ...
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