Britanis Cruise Ship Sinking
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Britanis cruise ship sinking. Jan 4 2017 - One of the oldest existing passenger ships 26000-ton Britanis sank 50 miles off the coast of Cape Town South Africa on Oct. The aged liner left Salvador Brazil earlier last week under a tugboats tow and was headed for a scrap yard in India when it developed a leak in the aft section. Heres a small section of a home movie my uncle made of the ship Britanis owned by Chandris LinesI was a 7 year old on that ship as she was about to set.
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Britannia current position is at coordinates 3591594 N -57956883333333 W en route to ES CADES BCN. Nahrain John 23 Jun 2014. Britanis - Chandris Fantasy Cruises.
One of the oldest existing passenger ships 26000-ton Britanis sank 50 miles off the coast of Cape Town South Africa on Oct. A year later the Brittany was sold to shipbreakers at La Spezia. Belofin-1 began taking on water and listing during the voyage but nobody was on board to correct the list.
And now October 21st 2000 off Cape Town. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground capsized and later sank in shallow waters after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio Tuscany resulting in 32 deaths. Our first cruise was our honeymoon cruise aboard the newer ship of the time-the Jubilee of the Carnival line in March 1991.
I travelled on this ship in the Summer of 1987 for my senior cruise. It was said at the time that the insurance payout on her enabled Chandris to buy Britanis as a replacement which had been laid up in San Francisco since September 1962 and was up for sale at a bargain price. After a major fire in July 1973 she was declared a total loss and was scrapped in Japan in January 1974.
