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 ...

The city was darkened by war, entombed in a frigid winter. And at Pier 88 at the foot of W. 49th St. rode a great gray phantom, a gloomy memory of happier times. Once it had been the Normandie, pride ...

It makes sense that Palm Beacher Richard René Silvin would want to write a book about the Normandie — the French-built, Art Deco-styled luxury liner destroyed by fire in the Hudson River on Feb. 9, ...

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 ...

The thick rain was so noisy as it splattered the streets and piers of the West Side with such power that anybody unaware could have been washed right off Pier 88 and into the Hudson River. I could ...

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 ...

One of the 2,170 passengers aboard the record breaking Normandie which arrived in New York yesterday, was Andre Levy, Director General of the Penhoet shipyards that built the new French liner. M. Levy ...