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T.S.S.
NORMANDIE
Buy the T.S.S. Normandie Now!
About:
The
T.S.S. NORMANDIE was one of the
finest ocean liners ever produced
-arguably the grandest ever. Second
in size only to the Queen Elizabeth,
running mate of the Queen Mary, the
Normandie was created to represent
the French nation and all it had to
offer to the world...click
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Dimensions: 31.5"(long) x
11.5"(tall) x 4.3"(wide)
This model was built according to
scale of the original ship by
skillful craftsmen. Model is full
assembled and ready for display.
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the T.S.S. Normandie Now!
The History of
Normandie:
The T.S.S. NORMANDIE was one of
the finest ocean liners ever
produced -arguably the grandest
ever. Second in size only to the
Queen Elizabeth, running mate of
the Queen Mary, the Normandie was
created to represent the French
nation and all it had to offer to
the world.
Revolutionary in design and
appearance, it's shape has
influenced industrial design ever
since. Created with a considerable
subsidy from the French
government. The Normandie's
revolutionary hull was
surprisingly designed not by a
Frenchman, but by a Russian
immigrant by the name of Vladimir
Yourkevitch who was then toiling
on a Renault assembly line.
No stranger to ship design,
Yourkevitch had produced hull
designs for the Imperial Russian
Navy prior to fleeing to France.
So revolutionary were his ideas
that at first the directors of CGT
(the French Line) were reluctant
to try his hull shape in their
test tanks. But Yourkevitch's
credentials were good enough to
get him in the door and to the
directors' astonishment his hull
design consistently outperformed
all others. That function came
first in Normandie's design is
something most of his (French
ships are masculine in gender)
passengers would never appreciate,
Normandie was science creating
art.
The Normadie was also famous for
his food as well. With flair his
staff of waiters and chefs made
dining aboard him a once in a
lifetime experience. For the truly
jaded, the Normandie also offered
his own a la carte Ritz-Carlton
grill at the end of the main deck.
This was reached by ascending five
landings of stairs and was the
culmination of the Normandie's
spellbinding boulevard of rooms.
Meals were available around the
clock for an extra fee per meal.
The NORMANDIE was a floating
temple of cafe society, his
passenger lists always reading
like a who's who list of the rich
and famous. But alas, this was not
to last forever for the
approaching war was to cut her
down in the prime of life.
Sadly, the Normandie burned and
capsized in New York harbor during
the war as she was being converted
into the troopship Lafayette.
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