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Feb 9, 1942:
Normandie burns in New York
The Normandie, regarded by many as the most elegant ocean liner
ever built, burns and sinks in New York Harbor during its
conversion to an Allied trip transport ship.
Built in France in the early 1930s, the Normandie ruled the
transatlantic passenger trade in its day. The first major liner
to cross the Atlantic in less than four days, its masterful
engineering was only surpassed by its design excellence. The
1,000-foot ship's distinctive clipper-ship bow was immediately
recognizable, and its elaborate architecture and decorations
popularized the Moderne style. After the American entrance into
World War II, it was seized by the U.S. Navy for the Allied war
effort and renamed the U.S.S. Lafayette. However, on February 9,
1942--just days before it was to be completed for trooping--a
welder accidentally set fire to a pile of flammable life
preservers with his torch, and by early the next morning the ship
lay capsized in the harbor, a gutted wreck. It was later towed
south to New Jersey and scrapped.
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