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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]
"When the Sun Goes Down in Normandie (Then Is When I Sit and Dream of You)" is a World War I era song released in 1918. Jeff Branen wrote the lyrics. Evans Lloyd composed the music. [1] The song was published by Jeff Branen Publisher of New York, New York. The sheet music cover features a group of soldiers sitting around the camp fire.
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.
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
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 ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Chambois ( French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃bwa] ⓘ ) is a former commune in the Orne département in north-western France . [ 2 ]
Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.