Photos of before and after on my Blog - USS Lafayette (AP-23), the erstwhile Normandie, pride of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, is towed down the Hudson in September 1943. She would eventually be sold for scrap in 1946.

 

During the Second World War, Normandie was seized by U.S. authorities at New York and renamed USS Lafayette. In 1942, while being converted to a troopship, the liner caught fire and capsized onto her port side and came to rest, half submerged, on the bottom of the Hudson River at Pier 88 (the site of the current New York Passenger Ship Terminal). Although salvaged at great expense, restoration was deemed too costly and she was scrapped in October 1946