In October 1932, the first transatlantic liner to exceed 1,000 feet was launched in the depths of the Great Depression.

The city was darkened by war, entombed in a frigid winter. And at Pier 88 at the foot of W. 49th St. rode a great gray phantom, a gloomy memory of happier times. Once it had been the Normandie, pride ...

One of the 2,170 passengers aboard the record breaking Normandie which arrived in New York yesterday, was Andre Levy, Director General of the Penhoet shipyards that built the new French liner. M. Levy ...

Smashing every transatlantic travel record for speed, size and monumental elegance, the French Super-Liner Normandie swept into Manhattan this week from a maiden voyage unprecedented. Not since before ...

a majestic ocean liner that was once the pride of France.. will be forever linked to Bethlehem It will be 80 years this spring, June 3, 1935 that the S.S. Normandie, the pride of the French Line, and ...

Christened this January, the Queen Mary 2, newest star of the storied Cunard line, is a ship of superlatives. No less than twice the size of her elegant older sister, the QE2, the QM2 is — at least ...

WESTPORT -- Betsey MacDonald says she never really studied ocean liners before, but that changed when she was given the opportunity to illustrate a new children's book. She became a quick study on the ...

Irate French Communists raised hubbub last week with complaints that their country’s new 79,280-ton Normandie, world’s largest liner, “will be run as a direct charity to the rich, and to the rich ...

Residing unsuspectingly at the Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights is a set of doors that were once the dining hall doors on the French ship the SS Normandie. When the ...