SS Normandie Part 2 of 3 The Greatest liner.CGT New York

[GrummanIronWorksFan]

Thank you for a rare and beautiful view of the NORMANDIE and its magnificant internal footage.

[MultiRaZoR47]

My Favorite Ships are like normandie QM,QE And The RMS Queen Mary 2 and the QE2 unlike THE UUUUUUUGGGLLLY LOOKING CRUISE SHIPS THAT ONLY HAVE A SPEED OF ONLY 20 KNOTS???? THEY ARE WEAK COMPARE TO OCEAN LINERS WHICH HAD 30 KNOTSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! OCEAN LINERS RULE THE WORLD!!!!

[jockrangeos]

Hi,

The departure is of LE HAVRE (Normandy) to NYC.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I wish people would stop trashtalking about Cruise Liners. I see not wrong with them, other being like Las Vagas casinos. Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria & new Queen Elizabeth are new Cunard Liners & they are very beautiful. Just like Normandie.

[HolyCross9]

I don't think it was very fair that the SS Normandie only got to live for 5 years before her incineration.

[cesarai]

Thew dance in the beguining made me laugth so much, ohhh my, but, yes... great liner...

[TheIserlohn123]

cool great liner

[licentia1963]

Fascinating. But I could really do without the incongruous dancing...

[joedgillis]

now that is what i call a ship.the staircase at 7.50 makes titanics grand stair way look like a rope ladder.

[TheTraveltube]

@joedgillis i wouldn't go that far titanic was by far the best

[williamsnall]

Absolutely the most beautiful ship ever built, Normandie. Incredible video. It allows us to peek back in time and in color. What style and safistication.

[williamsnall]

There is only one ship ever built to rival the beauty of the SS Normandie, and that was the SS France that followed. Same beautiful rakish bow, and the lines of both ships were beyond compare. The heavy and "pudgy" Queens never came close in looks and sleekness, but served America proud carrying troops across the Atlantic during the second world war. It was estimated that the two Queens outfitted with "dazzle painting" working without stopping, actually helped shorten the war in Europe.

[4freespeech]

The Frenchies never forgave us for burning up the best thing they ever built,

and who can blame them?

(The lil chick-narrator sounds sexy, doesn't she?)

[bigcity233]

What great footage - just before the outbreak of war! The Normandie was the ultimate liner - in beauty and elegance. Notice how everyone is very well-dressed - even when playing and strolling on deck. Great shots of pre-war Paris and New York.

[aardvaark069]

It was that ships served a real purpose before airtravel. When there is a real purpose there can be real beauty.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

The store Jenny. My girlfriend is name Jenny, Her birthday is today, she is 30 years old today. Man, oh man! If we were in 1935, we would be celebrating her birthday onboard Normandie.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I love Normandie. One of the Great things about Ocean Liners is that when the world I live gets more cold by the day, I retreat to My Ocean Liners & I'm at peace.

[Seaclam67]

The Normandie had an art deco look all over inside and out, like interior sections of the Queen Mary. Titanic had Victorian interiors. At least on the interiors, I wouldn't say one looked better than another, more just different sytles of the times. Although I'm a Titanic guy, the Normandie and the France had beautiful lines. I also love the two original Queens. I hate the new ships built these days, with their ridiculously high "pack'em in" decks: They are testimates to bad taste & design.

[Tyler4768]

@Seaclam67 True, very true. Although I love ships today also... So I am kind of torn inbetween. I don`t mind the desighn in some ships, like Norwegion Cruise Lines, they look pretty spiffy! Although I totally agree with you on the rest. :)

[Cupcakealex]

The choice of Maurice Bejart's "Bolero" as a background audio/visual was inspired! Bravo and thank you for the superb experience of viewing this magnificent ocean liner. The First Class passengers appear a bit stiff but just as elegant as their surroundings. My mother came to America on the Normandie, not First Class and sick to her tummy for the entire voyage so her only memory was of the cabin. Thanks again.

[ofiammasoave]

bellissime immagini, ma che c'entra il Boléro di Ravel? è proprio insopportabile, totalmente fuori posto.

[johnmcluskey]

I made my last comment about this boat 2 yaers ago and I still hold my words this day. If you look at 5.05 on this vid, can you imagine being on that bridge? Even a being a passenger passenger.. This is still without any doubt the most gorgeous boat ever to cross any ocean

[Chiswick2]

The Cunard Queens do not compare to the Normdandie. The Queens were cookie cutter ships, not original at all. At best their design was a modernization of the Aquitania and Lusitania/Mauritania. Their interior design wasn't spectacular either. I like the Queens, but they do not compare. The Normandie was far more luxurious and it's decor was of a much higher aesthetic quality.

[btgohome]

If you are in NYC, at the Met in their modern wing, they have several of the panels from the dining room of the ship. They are pretty fabulous. In the video, they can be seen (sort of) around the 8:30 mark.

[alex39743]

Normandie was beautifful liner. She vas better bouth queens Mary and Elizabeth. Normanidie had revolution exterior & luxurious interior, but i`m sorry Normandie`s fans, TITANIC interior is better!!!

[MegaWheatfield]

Great film montage. !! Greatest liner ever built.

[dnminla]

great video

[Chiswick2]

Anything French is always more beautiful, I've always noticed that. The French seem to have much more of an artistic flair. If you compare French palaces like Versailles to British palaces like Blenheim you will see that the French palace is much the nicer. The same thing goes with ships, compare the Normandie and Queen Mary.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Don't you ever said that about today's LIners! they are just as beautiful as their predecessors!

[hank3rox]

To hell with all the horrible-looking cruise ships of today. Normandie represented the pinacle of ship design. The two Queens & many other liners before them had a lot of style but this beats them all.

[PJCoan]

This was Marlene Dietrich's favorite ship- she loved travelling in it's absolute elegance, dining in the exclusive Grill Room, and going to the movies in the theater. What a shame it burned in New York Harbor!

[nauort23]

@PJCoan... another kid, all hopped up on dope!!

[PJCoan]

@nauort23 Leave me alone- I've done nothing to you!

[arc27]

This ship is the stuff of movies. And the first class passengers... so austere! People don't act like that anymore.

Very cool footage!

[the13joker]

The hotel originally opened on October 10, 1942. Its design was inspired by the ocean liner SS Normandie. It features the same art deco design as the ship that inspired it, and the hotel's roof sign is one of the two signs that adorned the top deck of the Normandie but were removed from it during an early refitting. It is a fine example of what came to be known as the Streamline Moderne architecture style.

The Normandie Hotel is in San Juan , Puerto Rico . Come and visit.

[SaithTheLordMinistry]

The most beautiful liner ever built.

[godseesnocolour]

it is a beautiful ship but its not the most beautiful i Still think the Olympic Class Liners were the most beautiful they also changed the world drasticly in many ways.

[lenaweeparka]

That is a total crock, I'm sorry. The LUSITANIA/MAURETANIA preceeded the OLYMPIC by 5 years. They were faster and had far more advanced hull designs. They also had double skins which would have spared them the fate of the TITANIC. THEY changed the world in that era. The OLYMPIC class were larger, more luxurious and more stable, but they were wildly outdone by the German IMPERATOR class ships of 1913+ and the glorious AQUITANIA of 1914.

[tkaminsk]

Lusitania and Mauretania would have sank faster than the Titanic as the boiler rooms were not fully water tight. Their coal binkers ran the length of the ship and were no closed off only by a wall that went 3/4 way up. Hence the reason the Lusitania sank in 18 minutes even with the Water Tight Doors closed. The access points to the bunkers were open in 4 parts in every boiler room as well. They were required of that design due to the fact that they were designed for Admiralty Use as war ships

[lenaweeparka]

From my understanding, the iceberg buckled the outer plates of the Titanic, popping rivets and opening slits for the water to enter. The damage, though fatal, did not penetrate very deeply into the ship. Looking at Lusitania plans from a repro of an ENGINEERING issue from 1907, this double skin can plainly be seen outside the bunkers. A graze from an iceberg would not have compromised the second skin. You may recall that the Olympic had an inner skin installed after the disaster. Wonder why?

[lenaweeparka]

Another plan in the book previously referenced is a cross section of the hull with an inner skin extending just above the waterline that is as deep as the double bottom. Had she grazed an iceberg below the waterline only the outer skin would have been damaged. From EXPLORING THE LUSITANIA: "Electrical power opened and closed her 34 major watertight compartments, the 'steel honeycomb' that would have saved her had she been involved in a collision of the sort that later sank the Titanic."

[lenaweeparka]

One more thing, from THE LUSITANIA DISASTER: "All lights were blown out; all electric power was cut off... The crucial watertight doors in the bulkheads, designed to be hydraulically closed from the bridge, could not be shut because of this disruption." The Lusitania was TORPEDOED, causing a massive 2nd explosion which blew out the side of the ship, listed immediately and was enveloped in chaos. Comparing that to the deadlier but more orderly Titanic sinking is just a little unfair.

[fairgirl7]

The Normandie was not only the most beautiful liner of all time but her hull design was so far superior; (even to the Queen Mary.) She was longer in the midsection that other liners which allowed for better structural rigidity. THIS FILM was wonderful; what a loss to the world when Normandie did not survive. There will never be a ship like her again .

[carsmasher]

@SaithTheLordMinistry I agree

[QDTREEN]

they should make a NARMANDIE 2 and make shore the yanks put in for it

[stormrider62033]

just a great video of this huge powerfull ship

[stew400523]

I am mind blown by this footage. its truely amazing to get a glimpse of the Normandie in color footage.

Fantastic

[cubantoro]

There is just one I can say... MAGNIFIQUE!~ This was the golden age of the liners. The "Normandie" was the zenith in design, a floating art deco Versailles. To have these color films of the ship just add to the mystique of this ship. Thank you for preserving her status as the most beautiful liner ever built.

[4521556]

A floating 20century Versailles financed by the French Govt, proud of 'la France', rightly so.

Unbelievable footage, I owned some of the furniture, and thrilled that it's of First Class. Harold Nicholson wrote,as a passenger on the maiden voyage, "The ship is a floating palace of Lalique, gold and scarlet'.

[sagafjord]

simplesmente a coisa mais maravilhosa q já vi sobre o Normandie...

[GPAGraceTrain]

WOW! A true floating palace!

[GPAGraceTrain]

Wonderful liner, war destroyed her also.

[jeveuxtevoir89]

If im not mistaken, this is a program that was featured in PBS about the normandie. I think it was about a guy who recorded the length of the whole voyage-in color. It is the only color film to be known in existence and depicts both new york and paris.

[c3cubed]

Where on earth was this colour footage discovered and why isn't it being used to create a full-length Docu- DVD of the greatest of all liners? Someone could make some serious money.

In the case of a full documentary, I'd discard the overused and overfamiliar "Bolero" soundtrack (there is more appropos music of the period) and the strange dance montage - although I can forgive the passion and artist's intent behind it.

[ragemanchoo82]

Basically all the artwork on the ship had been removed before the fire broke out, so quite a lot of it is still around. I've even seen at least 4 different Normandie-related things on Antiques Roadshow over the last 12 months.

[kevbear45]

AS a Ocean Liner fan most of my life, how wonderful it was to see color film of this Amazing ship, Its Grand Art deco at it's BEST, I agree with "superberti" if I could have only lived 75 years ago, I know I would have sailed on her, she remains the "Ultimate" Ocean Liner...............:)

[johnm1978otsman]

This liner is in a completely different league from anything that was ever built at this time. The hull design is revolutionary and looks like the new cunarder QM2. The French were well ahead of the game

[matsolovpettersson]

This is maritime porn ! Very good. There is a strong erotic feeling in the pictures, not only in the dance and music - the passengers, the ship and the interiors are so magnificent. And sexy.

[TFlex01]

It is sexy. Psari manages to partner up and pirouette with a 65,000 ton French beauty...and we're all gladly drawn into the dance.

He loves this ship, and he makes us love her, too. We're greatful.

[TFlex01]

...grateful...

[johnmcluskey]

This has now become my favourite ocean liner. I always knew about the ship, but I had no idea how ahead of her time she actually was. Her sleek lines look amazing and even the Clyde Built Queens don't look this good. What a sad end to possibly the finest vessel ever afloat..

[johnmcluskey]

This is possibly the greatest video posted about an ocean great and I found this breathtaking. Thank you so much for posting

[xeasternxz]

Normandie's daring design was breath-taking. As Keats wrote " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever", Normandie's beauty will live in the imagination for ever.

[LeonhardMunich]

simply great!

[superbertie]

If only I was born several decades earlier I would have done everything I could to go on that magnificent liner...

[Bodaripoika]

Thank you extremely much for this very rare and excellent clip.

[majaorca100]

Thanks for sharing such awesome and rare footage!