Achillea Lauro Cruise Ship

The fire lasted for three days.

Achillea lauro cruise ship. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. Lauro Lines were in financial trouble by the late 1970s and the Achille Lauro was arrested in Tenerife in 1982. Heavily targeted at the Australian market and a bit cringy at time.

All ssMaritime and other related maritimecruise sites are 100 non-commercial and privately owned. The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8. The terrorists took control of the cruise ship in the Mediterranean off Egypt as it was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said Egypt.

Achille Lauro hijacking. The attack lasted only two days. The ship was declared a total loss.

MS Achille Lauro 1965-94 - Deck Plans. Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post. On 2 December 1994 while cruising off Somalia a major fire broke out in the ships engine room.

Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. They killed an elderly American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw him and his wheelchair overboard.

Usually many passengers got off toured Alexandria drove up to Cairo visited the museums and the pyramids and then. The Achille Lauro now became a full time cruise ship based in Genoa and she would operate 14 night Eastern Mediterranean cruises always departing on a Saturday with ports as follows. Leon Klinghoffer 69 from New Jersey born September 24 1916 was on a cruise aboard Star Lauros Achille Lauro on October 7 1985 with his wife Marilyn when the vessel was seized by terrorists at sea near Egypt.