TSS Normandie Model Ship 32"

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The T.S.S. Normandie was one of the finest ocean liners ever produced, arguably the grandest ever! Our modell is handcrafted, fully assembled and ready for display.

Second in size only to the Queen Elizabeth, running mate of the Queen Mary, the Normandie was created to represent the French nation all it had to offer to the world.

This model measures 80cmL x 11cmW x 28cmH, (32"L).

HISTORY:

Revolutionary in design and appearance, it's shape has influenced industrial design ever since. The Normandie's revolutionary hull was surprisingly designed not by a Frenchman, but by a Russian immigrant by the name of Vladimir Yourkevitch who was then toiling on a Renault assembly line.

No stranger to ship design, Yourkevitch had produced hull designs for the Imperial Russian Navy prior to fleeing to France. So revolutionary were his ideas that at first the directors of CGT (the French Line) were reluctant to try his hull shape in their test tanks. But Yourkevitch's credentials were good enough to get him in the door and to the directors' astonishment his hull design consistently outperformed all others.

The Normadie was also famous for his food as well. With flair, his staff of waiters and chefs made dining aboard him a once in a lifetime experience. For the truly jaded, the Normandie also offered his own a la carte Ritz-Carlton grill at the end of the main deck. This was reached by ascending five landings of stairs and was the culmination of the Normandie's spellbinding boulevard of rooms.
Sadly, the Normandie burned and capsized in New York harbor during the war as she was being converted into the troopship Lafayette.

TSS Normandie Model Ship 32"

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