Normandie Meets a Fiery End
More than seven decades after it occurred, the Normandie (1935) disaster lingers as one of…
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Normandie’s Fabulous Doors
French artist Raymond Subes (13 April 1891 to 31 January 1970) designed the fabulous 20-foot-tall…
Bad Vibrations on Normandie
Normandie is renowned for her interior and exterior beauty. Yet like all great lookers, Normandie also…
Turkey Day on Normandie
People in the United States will be celebrating Thanksgiving Day tomorrow. It was Thanksgiving Day, 24…
Launching Normandie
On 29 October 1932, at the Chantiers et Ateliers de St. Nazaire shipyard, an estimated…
Normandie Sold for Scrap
On 3 October 1946, USS Lafayette (ex-Normandie) was sold as scrap to Lipsett, a maritime…
Normandie’s Final Crossing
Although nobody knew it at the time, Normandie completed her final voyage as a passenger…
Refloating Normandie
One and a half years after a devastating fire raced through USS Lafayette (ex-Normandie), it…
Normandie Crash Landing
On 22 June 1936, during a torpedo-dropping drill, an RAF plane flown by Lt. Guy…
Normandie Inspection
Several men who look as if they had just stepped out of a René Magritte painting…