SS Normandie Part 1 of 3 The Greatest liner.CGT French Line

[MultiRaZoR47]

if the normandie did not increase its weight from 79,280 tons --> 83,423 tons, it will be faster than the Queen Mary because lighter weight+200,000hp turbo electric engine=Capturing the Blue Riband. RMS Titanic is 46,328 tons on its ill-fated voyage but normandie's weight before the refit is 79,280

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I love the Grand Salon & Salon de Manger. The rooms are dazzaling. Beautiful ship.

[Thermionman1970]

This is a very moving and educational video!Thankyou!

[Ranillon]

The Normandie easily has my vote as the greatest ocean liner of all time -- when she first sailed she was the fastest, biggest, most advanced, and -- by leaps and bounds -- the most luxurious.  Thumbs up if you agree!

[rugbytlse]

Too bad the girl has a terrible accent and makes some pronunciation mistakes. I would have preferred her talking in French.

[godseesnocolour]

its twice the weight of titanic not twice the size.

[Chris242tt]

ITS TINY!!!

[ZeroGal5]

what a great vid, and this ship was absolutely stunning! i wish i could've been around to see. do you mind telling me what orchestra did this version of Bolero? it's by the far best version i've ever heard! thank you very much and keep up the grade A work. :)

[DistantLover]

@ZeroGal5 hehe, I was actually wondering the same thing, myself.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Viva LA Normandie! Normandie was indeed the most luxurious Liner of all time. Normandie had the most luxurious the has ever seen before or since. Normandie was above the Ship of Lights.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Normandie was the most Beautiful ship of all time. her intoriors are to this day unsurpass. God, she was beautiful. Ocean Liners have incredible power. I know, I've fallen under alot in the past 12 years. I think they have a zombifying power, because I got into one countless times. La Vive La Normandie.

[kurtarmbruster]

Magnificent! The Bolero and the dancer are the perfect accompaniment and symbol of this never-to-be-equaled grande dame of the sea. Her loss was a profound tragedy. Thanks for sharing this wonderful footage.

[hollbri1]

last week i was dreaming of the normandie-from le havre to new york-it was so real and i never was on board.it is still my favorite ship

[clusterfak]

Would have been a helluva lot better without that stupid dancer...just saying

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I wish Normandie was still with us. For today are no French Atlantic Liners & the ones built in France are for forign steamship companies like Cunard. oh, I wish I can find out that there are ships built for France for cruising.

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Ocean LIners are still built. Remember the Liners that were being built 100 years ago were mordern. So today's Liners are just that: mordern

[phoenix1985]

@SuperTitanicfreak There is only 1 major ocean liner still in service: the Queen Mary 2. All the others are just cruise ships.

[walyern]

That yard just doesnt exisit anymore (aside from the fact that you could nmot build a liner of this size there). The last ship they built was QE2, and yes, she was a greatly built ship. It is hard for a yard to get back into the trade when there was a 10 to 15 year gap between the traditional liner market, and the new cruis eliner market. Many yards are shut down, ALL OVER EUROPE. When was the last time you have ever heard of a liner built at AG Vulcan, Ansaldo, Blohm and Voss... Things change.

[walyern]

To say that the QE2 had problems while others have not is just plain false. QE2 lasted for 40 years. There have been only a handful of liners that have lasted that long. One can not ignore that fact the ships built in British yards have seen some of the longest lives at sea, LIKE THE AQUITANIA". Why was QM2 not built at John Brown?

[walyern]

To settle some of the childish dispute over where liners are built. Most of the yards in Europe have been great yards, but I would have to say, that the British yards have a great history of building strong and sturdy ships. The other yards in Europe also have built great ships of great quality. QM2 was built at Chantiers de L'Atlantique because is was the only yard available. Cunard, for a time, considered investing in Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries to get them back into liner building.

[MrExplorer7]

SS Normandie was such a beautiful ship

[fairgirl7]

Psari, Thank you for this wonderful video of the most beautiful ocean liner that ever sailed. Elegant, aristocratic, futuristic, luxurious, a moving work of art. There will never be another Normandie; how I wish she was still in LeHavre to visit.

[hlaltimus]

Everything about this ship was absolutely gorgeous. Just look at it's lines: Bow, stern, aft deck levels, swept back smoke funnels, (rear funnel is a fake!) What a pity some careless incompetent ruined it all with one torch spark. By far the most beautiful and grand liner that I've ever seen.

[hlaltimus]

@hlaltimus P.S. Further research has gleaned that the aft smoke funnel was used for "housing domestic animals". Clever! I guess the happy sea travelers didn't have to listen to the dogs howling away all night long if they were boarded up in the aft funnel !!!

[4freespeech]

@hlaltimus Hope they drowned those jerks that set this MASTERPIECE afire!

[Ourumov66]

they will never be another ship like SS Normandie, such a grand Ocean Liner,even the Queen Mary 2 has some characteristics from the SS Normandie such as the triangular piece on the bow to stop the sea from reaching the passenger areas in a storm,her fate is heartbreaking for such genious to come to ruin

[kmisdarktemptation]

shes gorgeus!!!!

beutyful lady!!

I would love to sail in her!!!

[SonattaMorales]

normandie's beauty is inspiring! awesome ship.

[henrynevins]

Chris, Your ignorant comment only proves that you have never been on a French ship. I have made transatlantic crossings on the SS United States, SS France, Italian Lines - Raffello & Michelangelo, Leonardo DiVinci, & Cunard's QE2 & QM2. Its the English ships that suck. Their ships are boring, bland food, warm beer, entertainment dull, and the staff are rude pompous asses. Americans owned the Titanic (JP Morgan), the Irish built her, but it was the dumb-ass English who sent her to the bottom.

[Chris242tt]

The french have socialized medicine,and think they are better than everyone and hate americans.they need to take a bath to!

[henrynevins]

The English has socialized medicine and why did Cunard have the QM2 built in France? Maybe the fussy French build a better ship? A slap in the face to UK shipyards which they deserve. QE2 was nothing but problems with breakdowns in the middle of the ocean, cracked hull plating, don't get me started the list is too long.

[Ourumov66]

there was no other shipyard available you prick in europe to house a ship as big as QM2 and why do you think the hull was cracking in QE2?! it was age for fuck sakes after awhile its bound to happen,and are you going to say next the ship should have been built at Clydebank? dear oh fucking dear

[Chris242tt]

WHATEVA!!!!!!!!

[godseesnocolour]

Titanic was a british ship not an american ship you idiot haha. and for the fact that you said Chris ignorant comment proves that he has never been on such ships that you mentioned well theres one thing that proves it clearly his age hes 24 not a man having a bitch fit at the age of 56 like you...

French and american interior of there ships are very alike, british ships how ever rarely exist now but they were the grandest ships in history and the 3 legendary olympic class prove it ..

[henrynevins]

Well at age 21 what the heck do you know about anything? I have been riding ships while you still had formula dribbling down your chin. Miss know-it-all, have you ever heard of JP Morgan? Get out the history books you never read. Yes, White Star was English, but American multi-millioniare Morgan "OWNED" White Star. He had his own personal suite on Titanic, but wasn't on that voyage. Olympic Class liner interiors look plush today, but was common fare new back then. Prior liners had the same

[Chris242tt]

French ships suck. British ships like the titanic are better!

[General1lol]

How? It was longer, wider, more luxurious, faster, and more efficient. The SS Normandie was one of a kind, the ship of the century! Many specialist in art, crafting, engineering, and carpenting donated their work into this ship. In my opinion, she is twice the cost of the Titanic. But that was 20 years before the S.S. Normandie was even a thought. But, why are you here if you hate French Liners? But let it be in mind, "She was perfection."

[kmisdarktemptation]

what an ashole you are, is your family also like this or only you prik

[TaleOfValors]

gosh i thought this vid was a docu about the Waffen SS in the Normandie xD

[flyingfishsurf]

true artists and craftmen designed & built the normandie. the queen mary and normandie have never been equalled in pure aesthetics. today, our ships are inflated technological crap. i wish i could pull into some port aboard the normandie and dock next to some modern cruise ship.

[FlynnLindley]

.....and... you get to hear the history from this darling accent.

[walyern]

Even with all the new liners that have been built in the past few years, the mighty Normandie is still the greatest liner of all time. She made the biggest statement of any liner in history. She was the first to exceed 80,000 tons, the first to reach over 1,000 feet in length, and the first to use turbo-electric engines. She arrived at noon on the first of June, 1935 having captured the blue ribbon.

[walyern]

Her interiors were like nothing that ever came before or since. Her dining room has yet to be equaled in size.

[Cupcakealex]

@walyern I read that The First Class dining room went the entire width of the ship, a producut of ingenious design for the diversion of the engine exhausts to the funnels. What style, real glamor and drama, Art Deco all the way. France and the French should be very proud of their acheivement.

[walyern]

Her interior design has yet to be matched. She was one of a kind, and nothing quite like her will ever come again. Normandie was perfection.

[benoit91220]

what a liner! the most beautiful ever built!

sad demise but immortal image! vive la France!

[brawleer71]

For me the most beautiful passengership ever built.

[CJCody2006]

Considering that the Normandie was such a HUGE ship, her passenger capacity was slightly small compared to other ships. According to records, she was built to carry 1,972 passengers in one trip. There were accommodations for 848 passengers in Cabin Class, 670 in Tourist Class, and 454 in Third Class.

[lasuvidaboy]

Normandie was in the top 5 of the greatest ocean liners ever built. Titanic was famous because she sank. Her sister Olympic was one that deserves more notoriety due to her long career, war service and great popularity on the North Atlantic run.

[GPAGraceTrain]

Titanic was a motor boat compared to the Normandie.

[jackthayer]

not really

[4freespeech]

@GPAGraceTrain Interesting you should say that. We will always believe Titanic was a murder weapon, built for one trip to drown those financiers who were

firmly against bringing an illegal, criminal private banking cartel to the United

States we now know as the "Federal Reserve", (which is neither "federal" nor

has no "reserves").

Other liners in those days, even ones built a decade before Titanic, had

modern steam turbine engines while Titanic's engines were RELICS.

She was a DEATH SHIP.

[jackthayer]

looking at the luxury it makes me wonder what's better in luxury titanic or the normandie?

[LionheartPnshmnt]

Definitely the Normandie because she had a style of her own unlike previous liners like the Titanic who mimicked land based designs.

[jackthayer]

true but it's that that that made the titanic immortal

[LionheartPnshmnt]

If the Titanic never hit the iceberg and sank I doubt any of us would have fond memories. She would have only been the world's longest liner for less then a year as Germany's Imperator was already ready for launch. She wasn't as fast as the Lusitania or Mauretania. Her luxury couldn't compared to CGT's upcoming France.

[jackthayer]

are u serious? her luxury is by the far the best i have ever seen (in first class that is) even today the titanic's luxury is better than any cruise today

[LionheartPnshmnt]

Of course any true liner surpasses those bulky cruise ships. I was comparing her to competition at the time and she falls on the side of sub par. The Titanic is more of a jack of all trades and a master of none.

CGT's France who also had her maiden voyage in April of 1912 was dubbed as the "Chateau of the Atlantic" and became the favorite of millionaires.

[jackthayer]

hah! the titanic had far better luxury in fact after she sankl there was a unwritten law that no ship can have more luxury than her

[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.

[jozefsterkens]

The color footage was made for the Company Générale Transatlantique as a publicity movie and it was showed on french television some years ago. I think it is still in the posession of the (CGT) as so many interiour pieces (silverwork, dishes and so on), I have a documentary where you can see a big hall in the port of Le Havre opened by a maritime historian who with white gloves shows some relics. They obvisualy have no fear for burglers.

[Westomania]

Did anyone hear that the QE2 is being sold from Cunard in November?

[ragemanchoo82]

Its going to be docked in Dubai as a floating hotel

[ragemanchoo82]

This is AMAZING. Wow :D

There's not much footage of the Normandie out there. Also, apparently PBS did a special on the ship, but they only play it in certain markets.

[danny18999]

one of the best looking ships in the would. and so is the norway ex france wich is now being scraped in along.

[jrchan01]

WOW NICE video i think the name psari is jumble leter's so i arrange it to paris

[endemicgoogle]

Opening music?

[LeonhardMunich]

Very well done presentation of a wonderful ship! Thanks for that!

I must admit that - at least that is my opinion - most beautiful, best designed liners ever afloat were french: the Normandie and the France. The design of liners was lifted to another level originally be the NDL liners Bremen and Europa. But the Normandie was a class of it´s own.

[theatreorganman]

Like the ship itself, this film is a true work of art!

[MvComeaudoc]

Wonderful footage I have never seen before....soo good to see that some has been perserved. Thanks very much for presenting it in a dignified manner befitting the Normandie!

[Bodaripoika]

Dear Psari,

Thank you very much for this excellent clip.

[cappyl]

Great stuff.....best of the NORMANDIE yet.

[majaorca100]

Awesome!! The best videos about the Normandie I've seen so far

[benoit91220]

fantastic!!!

[melianhoppy420]

nice work very nicly put together