SS Normandie Part 1 of 3 The Greatest liner.CGT French Line
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by admin
search) Sailed from Le Harve to New York 1935 to 1939.( ww11) About twice size of Titanic. Worlds largest ship. 83000 tons. Sound track Bolero Ravel. Launched onto the Loire river built by Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (more commonly known as the French Line or CGT) contenders against the White Star line on the Atlantic route Russian Vladimir Yourkevitch designed the new hull shapen while interior glass work was by Lalique. Built Penhoët shipyards at St. Nazaire huge steam engines …
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How? It was longer, wider, more luxurious, faster, and more efficient. The SS Normandie was one of a kind, the ship of the century! Many specialist in art, crafting, engineering, and carpenting donated their work into this ship. In my opinion, she is twice the cost of the Titanic. But that was 20 years before the S.S. Normandie was even a thought. But, why are you here if you hate French Liners? But let it be in mind, “She was perfection.”
French ships suck. British ships like the titanic are better!
gosh i thought this vid was a docu about the Waffen SS in the Normandie xD
true artists and craftmen designed & built the normandie. the queen mary and normandie have never been equalled in pure aesthetics. today, our ships are inflated technological crap. i wish i could pull into some port aboard the normandie and dock next to some modern cruise ship.
…..and… you get to hear the history from this darling accent.
Even with all the new liners that have been built in the past few years, the mighty Normandie is still the greatest liner of all time. She made the biggest statement of any liner in history. She was the first to exceed 80,000 tons, the first to reach over 1,000 feet in length, and the first to use turbo-electric engines. She arrived at noon on the first of June, 1935 having captured the blue ribbon.
Her interiors were like nothing that ever came before or since. Her dining room has yet to be equaled in size.
Her interior design has yet to be matched. She was one of a kind, and nothing quite like her will ever come again. Normandie was perfection.
hah! the titanic had far better luxury in fact after she sankl there was a unwritten law that no ship can have more luxury than her
Of course any true liner surpasses those bulky cruise ships. I was comparing her to competition at the time and she falls on the side of sub par. The Titanic is more of a jack of all trades and a master of none.
CGT’s France who also had her maiden voyage in April of 1912 was dubbed as the “Chateau of the Atlantic” and became the favorite of millionaires.
are u serious? her luxury is by the far the best i have ever seen (in first class that is) even today the titanic’s luxury is better than any cruise today
If the Titanic never hit the iceberg and sank I doubt any of us would have fond memories. She would have only been the world’s longest liner for less then a year as Germany’s Imperator was already ready for launch. She wasn’t as fast as the Lusitania or Mauretania. Her luxury couldn’t compared to CGT’s upcoming France.
true but it’s that that that made the titanic immortal
not really
Definitely the Normandie because she had a style of her own unlike previous liners like the Titanic who mimicked land based designs.
what a liner! the most beautiful ever built!
sad demise but immortal image! vive la France!
For me the most beautiful passengership ever built.
Its going to be docked in Dubai as a floating hotel
Considering that the Normandie was such a HUGE ship, her passenger capacity was slightly small compared to other ships. According to records, she was built to carry 1,972 passengers in one trip. There were accommodations for 848 passengers in Cabin Class, 670 in Tourist Class, and 454 in Third Class.
Normandie was in the top 5 of the greatest ocean liners ever built. Titanic was famous because she sank. Her sister Olympic was one that deserves more notoriety due to her long career, war service and great popularity on the North Atlantic run.
Titanic was a motor boat compared to the Normandie.
looking at the luxury it makes me wonder what’s better in luxury titanic or the normandie?
The color footage was made for the Company Générale Transatlantique as a publicity movie and it was showed on french television some years ago. I think it is still in the posession of the (CGT) as so many interiour pieces (silverwork, dishes and so on), I have a documentary where you can see a big hall in the port of Le Havre opened by a maritime historian who with white gloves shows some relics. They obvisualy have no fear for burglers.
Where on earth was this colour footage discovered and why isn’t it being used to create a full-length Docu- DVD of the greatest of all liners? Someone could make some serious money.
In the case of a full documentary, I’d discard the overused and overfamiliar “Bolero” soundtrack (there is more appropos music of the period) and the strange dance montage – although I can forgive the passion and artist’s intent behind it.
Did anyone hear that the QE2 is being sold from Cunard in November?