Italian Cruise Ship Wreck
The Italian news media portrayed the salvage as a chance for Italy to revamp its image after the wreck in which the captain fled the damaged ship and the evacuation was chaotic.
Italian cruise ship wreck. The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship Francesco Schettino is taken into custody in Grosseto Italy Italian news agency Ansa said 4165 out of the 4234 people on-board were safe but did. Schettino the captain of the Italian cruise liner that ran aground off Italys west coast was arrested on the charges of multiple manslaughter causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship police said. She was often fully booked setting a record for.
More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died. Missing Grows to 29 Six are reported dead and the captain is due in court Tuesday. Between September 1932 and May 1940 she completed 202 crossings and three cruises.
The ship also crashed into a smaller vessel with 110 people on boardREAD MORE. On 13 January 2012 at 2145 Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. First published on Sun 2 Jun 2019 0542 EDT.
By KEVIN DOLAK LAMA HASAN PHOEBE NATANSON and CLARK BENTSON. When the 114137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130000 GT Dream-class cruise ships. Italian Cruise Ship Wreck.
In 1958 the Italian Line began planning new ships to replace the ageing MS Saturnia and MS Vulcania. Several of the ships crew notably. Many famous naval disasters happen far out at sea but on January 13 2012 the Costa Concordia wrecked just off the coast of an Italian island in relatively shallow water.
The mayor of Venice has said cruise ships must change their routes after a huge holiday vessel crashed into a. Costa Concordia disaster the capsizing of an Italian cruise ship on January 13 2012 after it struck rocks off the coast of Giglio Island in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Italian ship which crashed January 13 2012 off the coast of Italy after hitting a rock was a tragedy that captured international headlines following dozens of deaths of passengers.
