The SS Normandie Aflame
While this 1942 newsreel conjectures “Accident or sabotage? The world may never know,” the actual disaster was caused by a welder accidentally setting fire to a store of flammable life jackets.
The Normandie in Better Days
All images from the South Street Seaport Museum exhibit Decodance: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie.
Additional Color Footage of the Blaze
Adolphe Cassandre's famed 1935 depiction of the SS Normandie.
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