1956 Cruise Ship Disaster

128 people were killed in the disaster.

1956 cruise ship disaster. The Stockholm in 1956 after the collision near New York. 3 February 1956 Ship Country Description Rosalind Panama. A Taiwanese trawler Terfu 51 had accidentally rammed the ship leaving a six-foot gash in the side.

Which reads in accounts of the day like a particularly. As the trawler pulled away there was a deafening sound of metal scraping against metal. Concorde plane crash accident - a French aircraft with 100 Peter Deilmann cruise passengers booked on MS Deutschland crashed on takeoff from Paris France leaving no survivors.

The ship took on a different kind of notoriety however after colliding with an opulent Italian ocean liner the Andrea Doria in a 1956 maritime disaster that killed 51 people. On 22 December 1963 a Dutch-built Greek-owned cruise ship called the TSMS Lakonia was sailing off Madeira. 13 WORST Cruise Ship Incidents.

On the night of July 25 1956 a collision between the ocean liners SS Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm killed 51 people and prompted one of the largest civilian maritime rescues in history. 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. It had been touted as unsinkable and set sail amongst great fanfare.

It was very nearly a disaster. She was on an 11-day Christmas cruise of the Canary Islands sailing from Southampton with a brief visit to the Azores first. Cantieri Riuniti dell Adriatico.

Why was the luxury cruise ship sailing so close to. In the 1930s Johan van Oldenbarnevelts regular route was between Amsterdam. The cargo ship sank 120 nautical miles 220 km south of Crete.