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

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 ...

SS Normandie only graced the seas for four years before meeting a fiery end. But it was long enough for her to be considered the ultimate ocean liner, profiled here as part of our Art Deco Centenary ...

Cary Grant and Marlene Dietrich were just two of the many high-class passengers who saild aboard the SS Normandie, which is being honored at the South Street Seaport ...

The SS Normandie burned in her slip at Pier 88 in New York on February 9, 1942. Thousands of people from New Jersey and New York watched the spectacle in person or saw the smoke from many miles away.

The scale of this salvage operation is nothing short of daunting. The SS Normandie was an ocean liner put into service in 1935 and capable of carrying 1,972 people across the Atlantic Ocean. The ship ...