Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "SS France: The Pride of Norway?" video.

  1. Another fascinating liner video! Thank you! The deterioration of then explosion on the Norway makes me think of the movie "The Last Voyage" in which a boiler explodes aboard an aged and worn out ocean liner. The movie was filmed aboard the France/Norway's predecessor Ile de France. interesting how art and life have so much in common.
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  2. I've read that about the Queen Elizabeth, that she could acheive 34 knots, but that it was simply too expensive to operate her at such speed.
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  3. John Maxtone-Graham in his book "Crossing to Cruising" has a fascinating fictional section in the chapter called "The Once and Future Normandie" about the Normandie's wartime service as the Lafayette then her return to peacetime service. Mr. Maxtone-Graham's fictional account take the Normandie into the 1960's when she is replaced by the France. Fiction but great fun to read and it's a good account of what could have happened.
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