Before the end of the war, he consulted on the Chicago Subway system, the Newport News Shipways construction, and raising the Normandie, among others.
He even takes credit (and payment) for the burning of the SS Normandie, even though he had nothing to do with it.
In 1921 Méheut became the French Ministry of Defence's official painter and in 1925 began decorating commercial passenger ships, including the SS Normandie.
Architecture graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1939, Toma Barbu Socolescu will work during the time of its studies on the interior of the transatlantic liner SS Normandie.
The candidate specialists were then given specific training in schools on the East Coast with divers training on the salvage of the Normandie in New York.
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In addition, there was significant new competition from new Italian, French and British superliners: the Italian SS Rex (51,062 GRT) and SS Conte di Savoia (48,502 GRT), the French SS Normandie (79,280 GRT), and the British RMS Queen Mary (80,744 GRT).
Examples of liners considered Ships of State are the RMS Queen Mary (United Kingdom), SS Normandie (France), SS Rex (Italy), SS France (France), RMS Queen Mary 2 (United Kingdom), and SS United States (United States).