1985 The Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.

1985 the cruise ship achille lauro. As such only 97 remained onboard. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. 10 1985 after Egyptian authorities stopped it from sailing to the Israeli port of Ashdod.

The MS Achille Lauro caught on fire and sank 125 miles off the coast of Somalia while I was working on board as a crew member. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist.

The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8. Death of Klinghoffer. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew.

MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples Italy. Four Palestinian terrorists stormed into the ships dining room shooting their. Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro leaves Port Said harbor on Oct.

They were to rendezvous with the ship hours later at Port Said. The hijackers took the more than 400 passengers and crew members hostage and demanded the. Naples Alexandria Port Said Ashdod Limassol Rhodes Piraeus Capri and then back to Genoa.

34 Years Ago on Monday 7th October 1985 the Italian passenger liner ACHILLE LAURO was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt while on passage from Alexandria to Ashdod Israel. On October 7 1985 the Achille Lauro an Italian-flag cruise ship was seized while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said The hijackers members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO2 had boarded the ship in Genoa posing as tourists. Syria refused to permit the ship to anchor in its.