OPO 10 - Set of 2 Miniature replicas of The Most Famous French transatlantic Liners, The Normandie + The France, Scale 1/1250 or 25 cm - PA4

Set of 2 miniature replicas of ocean liners: The Normandie is a transatlantic liner of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, built by the Penhoët shipyards (now Chantiers de l'Atlantique) in Saint-Nazaire from 1931 and registered at the Port of Le Havre in 1935. When it entered commercial service, the Normandie was the largest ocean liner in the world. However, the Normandie's career was interrupted by the Second World War. The liner was disarmed and remained docked in the port of New York. At the end of 1941, it was requisitioned by the United States and renamed USS Lafayette. Despite the brevity of its career (4 years), the Normandie left a deep mark on universal memory. It is considered the most successful liner in history. ------ The liner France (third of the name, renamed Norway in 1979, then Blue Lady in 2006) is a former transatlantic liner built at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique, in Saint-Nazaire, where it was launched on May 11, 1960 in the presence of General de Gaulle. At 314 meters long, it was the longest liner ever built in the world throughout its period of activity until the launch in 2004 of the Queen Mary 2, 345 m long. It thus remained for 42 years the largest liner in the world, a record still active today. Symbol of the prestige of Gaullist France, whose end of operation in France was symbolic of the crisis of the 1970s, it was nicknamed the "little brother of the Normandie" by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique.

• Carefully detailed article, in metal, and with plastic parts as on all miniature reproductions
• A great gift idea!
• Delivered on a wooden base in a beautiful packaging, see photos.
• Faithful replica of this mythical cruise ship
• This lot consists of 2 cruise ships