1956 Cruise Ship Disaster
On the night of April 14 the Titanic struck an iceberg that damaged the hull on the port side of the ship.
1956 cruise ship disaster. All 41 crew rescued by Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopters. 11-day Christmas cruise carrying a total of 646 passengers and 376 crew. The Costa Concordia disaster Italian police escort the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner Francesco Schettino on January 14.
Cantieri Riuniti dell Adriatico. At the time most of the passengers were in the ships ballroom but they and the rest of those in their. The ship drifted to within 100 metres of running aground before they were able to restart one of the engines police.
The cargo ship ran aground on the Pentland Skerries Orkney Islands Scotland. The cargo ship sank 120 nautical miles 220 km south of Crete. 128 people were killed in the disaster.
In 1962 she became the Greek Line cruise ship TSMS Lakonia. It was very nearly a disaster. Things were going bad very quickly.
On October 4 1980 the aurora borealis danced above the stricken cruise ship as the elderly passengers crawled out of bed and made their way to the upper deck after the captain announced that there was a fire in the engine room. ALASKA CRUISE SHIP DISASTER. It was set to transport 2500 Western Electric employees to a company picnic.
The ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was rammed by MS Stockholm now Astoria on July 25 1956. In 1915 this cruise ship met disaster before it even sailed. The vessel was quickly underway again but at 1530 the ships Master Captain Vladislav Vorobyov warned the pilot about navigating too close to the shore.
