1956 Cruise Ship Disaster

The cargo ship sank 120 nautical miles 220 km south of Crete.

1956 cruise ship disaster. 3 February 1956 Ship Country Description Rosalind Panama. Why was the luxury cruise ship sailing so close to. 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.

It was set to transport 2500 Western Electric employees to a company picnic. The cargo ship ran aground on the Pentland Skerries Orkney Islands Scotland. Eastland where there are fatalities.

The Costa Concordia disaster Italian police escort the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner Francesco Schettino on January 14. Almost everyone aboard in the inhospitable Gulf of Alaska one of the. This is a longer version of the video that went viral.

Prosecutors accused the captain of piloting the ship too. At the time most of the passengers were in the ships ballroom but they and the rest of those in their. In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left more than 4000 passengers stranded in the Gulf of Mexico with no hot water and few working toilets.

Cantieri Riuniti dell Adriatico. It was taken at 158 pm just 5 minutes after the first one. 11-day Christmas cruise carrying a total of 646 passengers and 376 crew.

On the night of April 14 the Titanic struck an iceberg that damaged the hull on the port side of the ship. The Stockholm in 1956 after the collision near New York. A total of 46 people were killed in the collision.