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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...
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    name and funnels are clearly visible. SS France (1910) SS Normandie SS Liberté SS United States SS Constitution SS Independence Pierre-Marie Poisson Ships...
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    Its design was inspired by the French transatlantic passenger ship SS Normandie in addition to featuring the same art deco design as the ocean liner...
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    liner style", and was influenced by the design of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, launched in 1932. As the Great Depression of the 1930s progressed, Americans...
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  • 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...
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    SS Paris, SS Île de France, and especially SS Normandie. Fragilized by the Second World War, the company regained its fame in 1962 with the famous SS France...
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    Transatlantique was awarded the Europa as a war prize to replace the destroyed SS Normandie, which had caught fire and capsized at her moorings while interned by...
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    2001, p. 97 Offrey, Charles; 303 Arts, recherces et créations:SS Normandie/SS France/SS Norway: France, the Last French Passenger Liner; p. 45 Le Goff...
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    and illuminated glass ceilings for the ocean liners SS Île de France in 1927 and the SS Normandie in 1935, and for some of the first-class sleeping cars...
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    under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935. The third and largest member of German Hamburg America Line's...
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    August; she lost the title to SS Normandie in 1937 and recaptured it in 1938, holding it until 1952, when it was taken by the new SS United States. With the...
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  • Fry glances at it and smiles knowingly. The ship shown is the former SS Normandie, which burned and sank in February 1942, leading to rumors of German...
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    result of various maritime disasters involving fire, including SS Morro Castle and SS Normandie, William Gibbs specified that the ship incorporate the most...
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    largest shipyards in the world, constructed notable ocean liners such as SS Normandie, SS France, RMS Queen Mary 2 and the cruise ship MS Symphony of the Seas...
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    docks, Luciano allegedly said, was manufactured by the sinking of the SS Normandie in New York harbor, supposedly directed by Anastasia's brother, Anthony...
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  • Anastasio allegedly organized the arson sabotage of the French luxury liner SS Normandie. Early in 1942, a few months after the U.S. entered World War II, the...
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    this use of "mothballed" may have been reports that the ocean liner SS Normandie was "packed in mothballs" when in September 1939 it was 'interned' by...
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    in the Battle of the Atlantic, and in February 1942 the ocean liner SS Normandie, a captured French ship that was being refitted as a troop ship in New...
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    "You're just as hard to land as the Île de France." SS France (1910) SS Paris (1916) SS Normandie SS Liberté Compagnie Générale Transatlantique Pierre-Marie...
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    to exceed 30 knots (a barrier not surpassed until the completion of SS Normandie in 1935). White Star proposed having over 40 diesel generator sets driving...
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    1964) was a Russian Naval engineer, and a designer of the Ocean Liner SS Normandie. He worked in Russia, France, and the United States. Vladimir Yourkevitch...
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    World War II. She became the largest ship in the world in 1942 when SS Normandie burned and sank at her moorings. Transatlantic service was not resumed...
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    Star Line's RMS Titanic, Hamburg America Line's SS Imperator, and later the French Line's SS Normandie. In most cases there was only a single false funnel...
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    Caribbean and the Mediterranean. Following the entry into service of the SS Normandie, the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique planned to operate Paris exclusively...
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  • New York waterfront free from saboteurs after the destruction of the SS Normandie. This spectacular disaster convinced both sides to talk seriously about...
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  • copious amounts of glass, including interiors for: the SS Paris, the SS Ile de France, the SS Normandie, Orient Express railroad cars, Peace Hotel (Shanghai)...
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  • PS General Slocum SS Normandie SS Noronic RMS Queen Elizabeth MS Prinsendam Herbert Saffir—a survivor of the Morro Castle Star Princess (2001) SS Yarmouth Castle...
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    Models of RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie. The Queen Mary model has cracked in the bow due to zinc pest....
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    Notable construction and renovation fires Fire Date Probable cause Refs SS Normandie 1942 sparks from a welding torch, during conversion to troopship Saint...
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  • and that these facilities were susceptible to sabotage. The loss of SS Normandie in February 1942, especially, raised fears and suspicions in the Navy...
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