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The SS Normandie ocean liner, with smoke rising from its funnels, sails past a crowd of people gathered on a dock in a busy harbor.
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The SS Normandie ocean liner, with smoke rising from its funnels, sails past a crowd of people gathered on a dock in a busy harbor.
Normandie The Normandie, often called the greatest ocean liner ever built. It was launched in 1932 for the French Line and served the transatlantic trade until 1939.

The Normandie was a French ocean liner that set a transatlantic speed record of just over four days. It was destroyed by a fire in New York Harbor in 1942. Ocean liners, one of two main types of merchant ships, operated on regular schedules, carrying available cargo and passengers. The heyday of ocean liners was from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, with famous examples including the Mauretania, Aquitania, Vaterland (renamed Leviathan), Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and the United States. The rise of air travel gradually ended the reign of the transatlantic liner as glamorous vessels.1

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