1956 Cruise Ship Disaster

It was taken at 158 pm just 5 minutes after the first one.

1956 cruise ship disaster. It was set to transport 2500 Western Electric employees to a company picnic. In 1975 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names Calypso Azure Seas and OceanBreeze until 2003 when she was sold for scrap to Ahmed Muztaba Steel Industries. At around 1100 pm on 22 December a fire broke out in the ships hairdressing saloon and quickly spread to other areas making it difficult to fight the blaze.

The vessel was quickly underway again but at 1530 the ships Master Captain Vladislav Vorobyov warned the pilot about navigating too close to the shore. Things were going bad very quickly. Questions reign over where the captain was when passengers were evacuating.

The PA system wasnt working properly on the boat but the safety officer ran downstairs to survey the damage. At the time most of the passengers were in the ships ballroom but they and the rest of those in their. Cantieri Riuniti dell Adriatico.

ALASKA CRUISE SHIP DISASTER. TSMS Lakonia was a passenger ship launched in 1929 for Netherland Line as the ocean liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Almost everyone aboard in the inhospitable Gulf of Alaska one of the.

The cargo ship sank 120 nautical miles 220 km south of Crete. The original cruise ship disaster the unsinkable ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in 1912 and sank into the icy water killing more than 1500 of. Twenty-two families perished when the cruise ship sank.

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. Why was the luxury cruise ship sailing so close to. It was very nearly a disaster.