Normandie Renamed Lafayette (1942)

Titles read: “NORMANDIE RENAMED LAFAYETTE“. New York, United States of America. Various shots of the French liner ship SS Normandie in dock, being turned into a America Naval Auxiliary. Men work to weld over her portholes and take the letters of her name off her side. The ship will now be called the Lafayette, in honour of the great Frenchman who befriended the USA in the American Revolution. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé web