SS Normandie Part 3 of 3 The Greatest liner.CGT The End

[MrJuno6]

mute,!, mute,! mute. ! Fucking awful music !!

[seethevolcane]

Terrible docu, terrible music.

[jacekphd]

Wonderfull movie ! Well done !

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Those wrenched Americans. I maybe a American myself, but this is unforgivable. I cry everytime I see this. She will be avenge.

[TheZomiehunter]

sure, that's the answer. fill it up with water. it can't do anything but sink, or lay over on the side ! ....... yanks ?

[williamsnall]

Of only four 1000 foot liners ever built, (Queen Mary, Elizabeth, Normandie and France) SS Normandie will always remain the most beautiful passenger liner ever built.  Her hull designgave thru to the France, which featured the funnels with wings. SS France/Norway were the last of their kind that gave way to commercial aviation as a way cross the Atlantic Ocean. France found new life in the warm waters of the Caribbean as the Norway. NCL offer history to those lucky enough to sail with her.

[ehswan]

Beauty, grace and truth have no place in the world of the hyper rich. Their filthy greed besoted realm is lust for naked power through war and destruction. These monsters could not allow such a majestic creation as the Normandy to continue to exist. ALL BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP SATAN!

[23456789Alexis]

Curse You, Clement Derrick!!!.

[u2bzane]

MAN..., New York's a tough place,

[Afrikitty]

Gosh, a great opening there with Ravel's Bolero. The music was magical and set the stage for the story perfectly. Yezzz, it's not nice when these big liners come to the end of their lives. It makes one's heart very, very heavy indeed.

[GospelGentleman]

@Afrikitty yeah, esp Normandie, and my favorite, the SS Bremen.

[bsatom]

7:12 is chilling in the irony. France's great gift to America overlooking Americas thank you back to France over 40 years later...

[SuperTitanicfreak]

I HATE the fact this happen. I'm looking at this & witness Normandie's destruction. I swear to Normandie I will never forget this & that I WILL never forgive the US Navy. NEVER!

[SuperTitanicfreak]

Normandie was too beautiful to be destroy. The US Navy was so careless & destroy this mos beautiful ship of all time! Because of this I will NEVER forgive! I don't how many troops died in WW2. To me Normandie is worth so much more. I glad the French never trust them again. To top this, the US Navy sold her for scrap. I Never forget this! Normandie wasn't even a loss. You know what? If this so-call liner united states goes up in smoke, I can care less. Then the US Navy will understand my hate.

[4freespeech]

@SuperTitanicfreak You needn't care. SS United States is but a SHELL, a hulk stripped of all its fittings. I don't blame you for being upset. Wasn't there a VICHY exile gov't of France at the time, even though France proper was technically in possession of Germany? The ship should have gone to them, although one would have thought the Normandie safe at a New York drydock! I'm not even sure if Navy welders set it on fire. I think it was some contractor who hired IDIOTS to work on the ship.

[TheOrontes]

The BEST video I have seen on YouTube. Incredible!! Thank you!!!

[gdcat777]

This series would have been fine without the dancers. It was an interesting interpretation, but so what. I wanted to see more of the interiors. The burning of SS Normandie is terrible enough without the whiney vocals of whatever song this is.

The American Navy is responsible for this fire, and when the designer offered advice on how to save her, they refused. Typical American arrogance.

[SSGreatEastern]

This ship was the best ever, really horrible she had to burn to death.

[23andrespipe]

hi! please tell me the name of that song.

[TV843]

It's a piece written by Ravel called "Bolero." There are many performances of it on youtube.

[23andrespipe]

no that song isnt that i say is the another one

[TV843]

If you're talking about the song at the beginning of the video... It's Bolero. The other song is "Oh What a World" by Rufus Wainright. It's accompanied by elements of Revel's Bolero throughout. Believe it or not.

[frankgperez]

Unbelievable - this had me in tears. Although the Queen Mary will always be my lady, this made me think of what could of been, what should have been. What the world has lost, as well as our souls.

[jdghgh]

@frankgperez: absolutely....what an incredible relationship that could have been between these two liners.

[Mitchosaure]

What a beautiful movie!!!..The best indeed I've ever seen about the S.S. Normandie story, taking us back over three quarters a century...The choice of Ravel's Bolero to illustrate it is awesome!..Many thanks, Psari for sharing it with us!..

[greenhousejpb]

more songs by the wonderful 24 yo leslie winchester (6:30-8:00) at her own channel satorihime ... or maybe at a concert of her in columbus, ohio

[TheVirtualSkipper]

Well.... That's great... Lost a whole new ocean liner..... such a shame :(

[blondi35]

VERY SAD

[SaithTheLordMinistry]

This story touches me, I love maritime history .

[SaithTheLordMinistry]

Just one amazing story, sad, and sure enough, war killed much, including this amazing liner. I just wished the US navy would have listen to the designer, if they would have only opened her sea cocks, she would have been fine.

[QDTREEN]

really sad the whole thing but whats this about the ships designer becoming a shoe polisher what the fuck is that . AND HOW

[SaithTheLordMinistry]

Probably totally gave up, washed and finished, it's a sad situation..

[coochwindgrassnew]

Brilliant film, and a sad end to a lovely ship, but looking elsewhere on the net I'm not sure the designer had such a sad end - looks like he went on to be a successful consultant to ship companies round the world until he died of a serious illness in 1964

[ddempsey6]

Mt grandfather sailed on the Normandie several times, and I am happy to say I have an ash tray from her. The lost world of Europe between the wars is perfectly expressed in the history of this beautiful ship. I thank the film makers for their work here.

[exeuroweenie]

Very well done videos.The sight of her burning made me nauseous.Normandie reminds of a Citroen SM compared to the Queen Mary's Rolls Royce.I think it's because of their lines.

[stormrider62033]

lets also remember the Normandie ,&Queen Mary ,were locked head to head in being the fast ship across the Atlantic,in 1935 the Normandie captured it from the Bremen ,at around 30 knots ,in 1936 the queen took it at 30.14 knots ,the normandie took it back ,in 37 the Mary retook it at 31.69 knots after extensive propeller work ,the Normandie was going to have this done to and would of gave the Mary a run for her money if it was'nt for World War 2

[harveyardman]

This is remarkable and precious footage of an era gone forever, and of perhaps the most beautiful ship ever built. It is a thrill to see it. I thank Psari for putting it together so well.

However, I question the title at the end about Vladimir Yourkevitch's fate. While researching my book "Normandie, Her Life and Times," I spoke to his son George and heard no hint of his life ending the way the title has it.

[JakeApiata]

Awesome to see a piece of history like this but a very sad ending to something so new and well designed a pity really the pride of french engineering meeting a avoidable end.

[benoit91220]

i think it must be sent to French Caribean..

[JustAn0bserver]

The Normandie was ahead of her time. She had designs that were far superior to the Cunard Queens. The Queen Mary and the Normandie traded the crown for the speed record often.

I've seen the Queen Mary and she aint no Normadie.

Remember, at the time the US seized the Normandie, she had been in service for 4 years. She was brand new. The US scraped her for $160,000.

I have not seen any comments about the US repaying France for destroying their ship. THe Normandie cost $60 million to build

[robinhood48]

Very simple. The USA confiscated the Normandie gave her a new name (La Fayette) and carried out modifications for a troopship. During the weldings the ship caught fire.Very simple,really.

[LionheartPnshmnt]

The US government did compensate for the Normandie by offering fourteen liberty ships and handed over the German war prize Europa which later became the CGT's Liberte. Still nothing could ever compensate for the loss of Normandie.

Also note the Normandie also had a very advance fire protection system which was unfortunately dismantled during her conversion. Her ships designer even asked to be let in the ship before she capsized to release valves to let the water out.

[JustAn0bserver]

The New Normandy was Beautiful and second to none. She fled the German invasion "BARELYl" as Hitler invaded France. Her destruction was uncompensatable and inexcusable.

After she sank on her side, which we could have prevented by flooding the lower decks, they cut off the top two decks to reduce top weight. The final death blow.

Sold for scrap for almost nothing.

There was nothing in the US fleet that could come near fair compensation for the lost $60 million NORMANDY.

[DistantLover]

Is helping to liberate France from Nazi control at all any compensation for the loss of a ship? Normandie was a beautiful ship, one of the best, but let us never lose site of what the bigger picture was back then, and understand millions of people were dying, and no matter how benevolent a ship this was, it was still a ship, an object, incomparable to the people lost in France, Poland, UK, the low countries, N. Africa, Italy, Greece, Russia and the list goes on.

[GospelGentleman]

@JustAn0bserver Agreed, this ship still blows many of these huge floating condos today away too.

[GPAGraceTrain]

The most beautiful ever built, yes accidental fire, but, if the brilliant us navy would have listened to the designer of the Normandie, she would have never rolled over and died, the designer offered to open the sea cocks, and the ship would sink to a stable level, but the us navy refused, and so they destroyed her.

[lasuvidaboy]

The Queen Mary while a wonderful ship was very dated compared to the French Line's Normandie. The Mary was a product of the mid-1920s while Normandie was years ahead in terms of interior design and engine/hull design.

[GPAGraceTrain]

Terrible end, just to sad to watch.

[corinthic]

Being a strong supporter and champion of the Cunard White Star Liners anything else is not really interesting!

How wrong can you be, this ship was indeed in every way more advanced than her British competitor, the RMS Queen Mary.

I think that however fantastic a ship she was would never be a favourite with the Americans because she was not a "Queen"!

I do not like to admit it now but the Normandie was probably the most beautifully designed transatlatic liner ever built!

[alexxxxxx23]

Magnificent ship S.S. Normandie - (French Titanic)- Most beautiful interior of ArtDeco ever seen...So sad that she has so short life...

[TFlexxx]

Thank you so much. I've never seen the interior shots of the Normandie included in the film. Those views plus her overall design make her loss so much more tragic, even now over 60 years later. Merci.

[sneakernbg]

Gracious ! Phantastic - Pardon - ouf course PHANTASTIQUE - too bad youtube is English ..

Americans never had the smallest sense for tradition and history - and - seems as they never will have - regarding the fate of the "Legendary SS France"...

[xeasternxz]

Why can't you be "smart" and temper your filthy language with reason. Get it sorted.

[ausskipper1]

What a triumph! Magnifique! Some things are just too beautiful for this world, the Normandie was one. Only France could build a ship like this... my aunt travelled on her in the 30's "It was like a dream" she said. The Normandie was light years ahead of her competitors, and her revolutionary power plant and bulbous bow are still used to this very day. She was just exqisite.

The queens looked positively dowdy in comparison,based on a design which was already 30 years old.

A stunning video,merci

[majaorca100]

your aunt was so lucky!

[ragemanchoo82]

Out of curiosity, how old was your aunt when she travelled on it?

[jrchan01]

whats the title of the song of this video

[majaorca100]

It's Bolero from Ravel

and the other song is: Oh, what a world by Rufus Wainwright

[LeonhardMunich]

Superb...

Congratulations!

[Bodaripoika]

Thank you very much for this extremely brilliant footage. I must say, the SS Normandie was THE luxury liner. Merci beaucoup, Psari!

[Hi5fromMe2U]

Best short liner film I've ever seen on youtube ! Thank you so much for producing/posting it - it was a joy to watch. Amazing quality, like it was shot only yesterday and in colour too !! Just GREAT !! Thank you....MERCI psari !

[JoannaColemanND]

Very well done! Fabulous video, much effort put into it. :) I am a huge Normandie fan! Good  work.

[majaorca100]

The music's really beautiful

[majaorca100]

One of the most beautiful liners ever...she met such a sad end!

Great footage! Thanks for sharing