Yesterday's BIG Story - French luxury liner Normandie
Yesterday's BIG Story - French luxury liner Normandie
The great French luxury liner Normandie arrives in New York on her maiden voyage with a new Trans-Atlantic record. It's the gala debut of an ill-starred vessel. Four years later war broke out and she was tied up in New York. Later, the Navy began to convert her to a transport and she caught fire. Despite heroic efforts of New York City firemen, she capsized at her pier. Salvage New York, New York
Yesterday's BIG Story - French luxury liner Normandie
June 3, 1935. The Normandie, the French luxury liner arriving in New York Harbor. Aerial shot - The Normandie with two of her three stacks smoking. Aerial shot - The Normandie passing the Statue of Liberty. Aerial shot - The Normandie and New York's skyscrapers.
Yesterday's BIG Story - French luxury liner Normandie
The bow of the Normandie. MS - Workmen doing conversion work on the Normandie after she was acquired by the Navy. MS - Fire broke out in the ship. It is really bellowing smoke. MOHS - Fire Departments from neighboring towns and cities trying to put out the fire on the Normandie. MS - Throngs looking through smoke filled streets at the Normandie burning. MS - Through the smoke filled air you can see the Normandie starting to list. MLS - The Normandie leaning on one side, smoke filling the air, MS - The Normandie lays on her side morally stricken. CUS - The Normandie laying on her side. MS - Salvage efforts are taking place and their pumping out the water. Time laps shot - The Normandie slowly rising. MS - The great sea queen being towed to the scrap yard.