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  2. SS Normandie - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Operation Underworld - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Timeline of largest passenger ships - Wikipedia

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    The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved over time to also include ships by length as supertankers built by the 1970s were over 400 metres (1,300 ft) long. In the modern era the term has gradually fallen out of use in favor of " largest cruise ship " as the industry has shifted to cruising rather than transatlantic ocean travel. [ 1 ]

  5. RMS Queen Elizabeth - Wikipedia

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    Another factor prompting the ship’s departure was the necessity to clear the fitting-out berth at the shipyard for the battleship HMS Duke of York, [16] for final fitting-out, as only it could accommodate the King George V-class battleships. Normandie, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth at New York Harbor in 1940

  6. St Nazaire Raid - Wikipedia

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    A motor torpedo boat (a 70 ft Vosper, MTB 74), commanded by Sub-Lieutenant Michael Wynn, [22] had two objectives: If the outer Normandie dock gates were open, she had to torpedo the inner dock gates. If the gates were closed she would instead torpedo the gates at the old entrance into the St Nazaire basin.

  7. Saboteur (film) - Wikipedia

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    The ship shown is the former SS Normandie, which burned and sank in February 1942, leading to rumors of German sabotage. [ 15 ] There was clever matching of the location footage with studio shots, many using matte paintings for background, for example in shots of the western ghost town, "Soda City".

  8. With SS United States set to be sunk, passengers ... - AOL

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    The historic SS United States is set to be turned into an artificial reef, but people who sailed on the majestic ship remember her heyday. With SS United States set to be sunk, passengers remember ...

  9. File:SS Normandie docked at Pier 88, New York city (USA), 20 ...

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    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 ...