Achillea Lauro Cruise Ship

It took five months to repair her.

Achillea lauro cruise ship. Three people were killed. 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. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea.

Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post. This was a video made for travel agents in 1990 for the 1991 South Pacific Crusie Market. The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8.

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. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean SeaAboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF.

Be assured that I am NOT associated with any shipping or cruise companies or any travelcruise. She was laid up in Tenerife when the Lauro Lines went bankrupt in 1982. Lauro Lines were in financial trouble by the late 1970s and the Achille Lauro was arrested in Tenerife in 1982.

All 1090 passengers and crew had to leave the vessel in lifeboats. Days later the ship docked in Egypt and the hijackers and their ringleader were being flown to safety aboard an Egyptian state. Klinghoffer was disabled and in a wheelchair the terrorists shot him in the chest and head and then forced two.

A tragic example of maritime terrorism. She lay there for a year until the Italian Government. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.