This postcard shows the Normandie entering the dry dock at her home port of Le Havre in 1938. The three stacker docked on the left is the Ile De France. Despite the 10,000 ton difference between the two ships, the Ile is often mistaken for the three funneled French Liner Paris in this image, because of that liners tragic loss at the very same berth where the Ile is seen docked. This confusion is undoubtedly caused by the fact that the Normandie was in dry dock when the Paris was lost to fire and capsizing in April, of 1939. The assumptions made about the ships shown on the card have caused it to become a real rarity.
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