LINER NORMANDIE
TOTAL LOSS; NO INSURANCE. NEW YORK, February 17. Rear-Admiral Andrews, Naval Commandant in the New York District, has acknowledged the ultimate loss of the liner Normandie, in a letter to the Mayor of New York, Mr. La Guardia, thanking the local firemen for their wc.k in combating the flames, which eventually caused the ship to topple over. The “Weekly Underwriter,” an insurance publication, declared to-day that there is no insurance on the Normandie. She was valued at 60,000,000 dollars. There had been no insurance since the United States had taken over the vessel as a naval auxiliary. Therefore her status at the time of the fire was that of a warship. The publication added that the ship is not salvageable.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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