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GRIM FATE OF THE SUPER-LINER NORMANDIE
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Sea Classics
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September 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Challenge Publications Inc. Sep 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Undoubtedly one of the finest liners ever built, the Normandie fell victim to the ineptitude of New York City's Fire Department
Tough the military history of the great passenger liners is Uttered with the wreckage of vessels that aid not survive their Naval service, none had as much potential, or died as pointlessly, as the elegant and revolutionary Normandie. The pride of France and, for a short time, the undisputed queen of the North Atlantic, the ship was lost not to the torpedo, bomb or shell that claimed others of her breed, but to a pier-side fire directly attributable to the catastrophic carelessness, stupidity and neglect of those who stood to profit the most from her martial ...