Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

Embassy Rome headed by Ambassador Maxwell Rabb and the Italian embassy in Washington under Ambassador Rinaldo Petrignani.

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On October 7 the ship. The attack lasted only two days. Three people were killed.

Achille Lauro was refitted again in early 1972 during which she was severely damaged by a fire. Unlike other C3 ships both Sydney Fencer and Roma Atheling were rebuilt as classy looking two class liners. On 2 December 1994 while cruising off Somalia a major fire broke out in the ships engine room.

After an argument the four. It took five months to repair her. As such I was the everyday point person in Washington for both US.

As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger. I was engaged as the Protestant Chaplain on the Achille Lauro for a cruise from Australia to Asian ports and return in January 1971. The original intent was to attack.

Both Atheling and Fencer were purchased by Lauro Lines to be rebuilt as modern passenger liners. I embarked in Sydney and the cruise was lengthy about 30 days. In 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLF off the coast of Egypt as the ship made its way to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal.