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Christofle provided the entire silverware for the liner <i>Normandie</i>, the flag ship of the French Line before the Second World War, which sailed between Le Havre and New York. The Normandie measured 313 metres overall, had a beam of 36 metres and displaced 83,423 tons. She took to the seas on May 5, 1935 with a crew of 1,320 including 200 cooks, pastry cooks and butchers, and 700 stateroom personnel. She could accommodate 2,230 passengers. The total amount of silverware supplied to the liner by Christofle totalled 45,000 pieces. The <i>Normandie</i> was stranded in New York at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, and burned at her pier in February 1942. She was subsequently sold for scrap, and in 1979 her fittings were sold at auction.","physicalDescription":"Champagne bucket, the base circular, the sides are plain and slightly flared rising to a rolled over rim.  A single incised line encircles the wall of the vessel at both the rim and the base.  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