1980 Cruise Ship Hijacking

Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.

1980 cruise ship hijacking. 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. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. They had weapons hidden in their luggage.

After evacuating the ship of passengers the crew could not control the fire and the abandoned ship sank on December 2. The ship involved in the hijacking the Achille Lauro returned to cruise duty until she was caught on fire off the coast of Somalia on November 30 1994. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea.

Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury liner. While the plan called for a peaceful takeover of the Santa Maria the third officer who was the officer of the deck at the time resisted and was shot dead. 7 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front off the coast of Egypt in the Mediterranean.

Deltas most prominent -- and only publicly acknowledged -- mission was the attempted rescue in April 1980. Shipowners and shipping industry analysts said yesterday that cruise ships were reassessing their security precautions as a result of the hijacking Monday of an Italian cruise ship. Two guys Lauras driver and Roscoe sneak aboard an all girl cruise ship with 600 horny mouth watering broads for six whole weeks with not one dude aboard.

By Charles R. Cruise liner with more than 1000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel a maritime. Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger presented DIA with the Agencys first Joint Meritorious Unit Award in 1986 for outstanding intelligence support over the previous year during a series of crises--the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the cruise ship ACHILLEA LAURO unrest in the Philippines and counterterrorist operations against Libya.

There were no fatalities and no serious injuries. The Williamsburg brought 359 passengers and crew safely to Valdez. With Cody Nicole Nicole Black Camilla Franklin Eve Evans.