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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.
The Normandie class consisted of five dreadnought battleships ordered for the French Navy in 1912–1913, Normandie, the lead ship, Flandre, Gascogne, Languedoc, and Béarn. The design incorporated a radical arrangement for the twelve 340 mm (13.4 in) main battery guns: three quadruple- gun turrets , the first of their kind, as opposed to the ...
The Normandie built in 1835, was a French paddle steamer working in conjunction with her sister ship the Seine (1836) on the lower reaches of the Seine. [1] The route she serviced was between Le Havre and Rouen via Honfleur with secondary stops along the way.
In 1882, SS La Normandie was the first ship of the company to be equipped with electric light, replacing the dangerous kerosene lamps. [20] SS La Provence was the first ship of the company to be equipped with wireless telegraphy (six years after SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse , the first liner to be equipped with this technology).
French ship Normandie, a Seine ferry built at Le Havre in 1835; 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
The French ironclad Normandie was the third and last of the three wooden-hulled Gloire-class ironclads built for the French Navy in 1858–62. The ships of the Gloire class were classified as armoured frigates because they only had a single gun deck and their traditional disposition of guns arrayed along the length of the hull also meant that they were broadside ironclads.
Summary of the Normandie class Ship Armament [103] Armor [103] Displacement [103] Propulsion [103] Service [104] [92] [105] Laid down Commissioned Fate Normandie: 12 × 340 mm /45 Modèle 1912 guns 300 mm 28,270 t (27,820 long tons) 4 shafts, triple-expansion engines and steam turbines, 21 kn 18 April 1913 — Broken up, 1924 Flandre: 1 October ...
The Normandie-class ships were 175 m (574 ft 2 in) long at the waterline, and 176.4 m (578 ft 9 in) long overall. They had a beam of 27 m (88 ft 7 in) and a mean draft of 8.84 m (29 ft) at full load. They were intended to displace 25,250 metric tons (24,850 long tons) at normal load and 28,270 metric tons (27,820 long tons) at deep load.