• In the afternoon of 11 May 1960, at St Nazaire, the largest liner in the world "FRANCE" is launched in the presence of President René Coty.

• On 15 January 1962, after the official opening by Prime Minister Michel Debré, FRANCE receives the ball of small white beds (1250) with his two queens, Princess Paola of Belgium and Audrey Hepburn, and to New York Part 3 FEBRUARY 1962.

• Eight thousand people have participated in its construction of 316 meters long, developing 160,000 hp which 8ha deck and 1,000 rooms, with crew of 1104 men, he has traveled 1,600,000 miles. It was sold on 25 June 1977 and renamed "NORWAY"