Upon arrival in New York City in 1935, SS Normandie captured the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic - Keystone-France In October 1932, the first transatlantic liner to exceed 1,000 feet ...
WESTPORT -- Betsey MacDonald says she never really studied ocean liners before, but that changed when she was given the opportunity to illustrate a new children's book. She became a quick study on the ...
Christened this January, the Queen Mary 2, newest star of the storied Cunard line, is a ship of superlatives. No less than twice the size of her elegant older sister, the QE2, the QM2 is — at least ...
Smashing every transatlantic travel record for speed, size and monumental elegance, the French Super-Liner Normandie swept into Manhattan this week from a maiden voyage unprecedented. Not since before ...
Irate French Communists raised hubbub last week with complaints that their country’s new 79,280-ton Normandie, world’s largest liner, “will be run as a direct charity to the rich, and to the rich ...
a majestic ocean liner that was once the pride of France.. will be forever linked to Bethlehem It will be 80 years this spring, June 3, 1935 that the S.S. Normandie, the pride of the French Line, and ...