S/S NORMANDIE IN GUANABARA BAY (collection F. GOLHEN)
Maiden Call Rio de Janeiro, 15th February 1938. Photo taken from my grand-father's "Chargeurs Réunis" ship.
The S/S Normandie was the masterpiece of CGT French Line and is often acclaimed as the ultimate ocean liner. She was launched in 1932 to great acclaim and immediately became the largest ocean liner in the world and on her maiden voyage claimed the coveted Blue Riband for France. After an acclaimed heyday in the 1930s as the great rival to Britain’s Queen Mary, the Normandie sadly was destroyed in New York by fire during conversion by the American’s into a troopship during the Second World War. Thus was lost the most iconic of all ocean liners and a timeless legend. A ship of the beauty of the great Normandie will never been seen gracing the world's oceans again. She was a true transatlantic masterpiece and certainly deserves the title of "The Most Beautiful Ocean Liner in the World".
Text : oceanlinermuseum.co.uk
S/S NORMANDIE IN GUANABARA BAY (collection F. GOLHEN)
Maiden Call Rio de Janeiro, 15th February 1938. Photo taken from my grand-father's "Chargeurs Réunis" ship.
The S/S Normandie was the masterpiece of CGT French Line and is often acclaimed as the ultimate ocean liner. She was launched in 1932 to great acclaim and immediately became the largest ocean liner in the world and on her maiden voyage claimed the coveted Blue Riband for France. After an acclaimed heyday in the 1930s as the great rival to Britain’s Queen Mary, the Normandie sadly was destroyed in New York by fire during conversion by the American’s into a troopship during the Second World War. Thus was lost the most iconic of all ocean liners and a timeless legend. A ship of the beauty of the great Normandie will never been seen gracing the world's oceans again. She was a true transatlantic masterpiece and certainly deserves the title of "The Most Beautiful Ocean Liner in the World".
Text : oceanlinermuseum.co.uk