Achilles Lorow Cruise Ship

The Achille Lauro now became a full time cruise ship based in Genoa and she would operate 14 night Eastern Mediterranean cruises always departing on a Saturday with ports as follows.

Achilles lorow cruise ship. On 2 December 1994 while cruising off Somalia a major fire broke out in the ships engine room. Some 320 crewmembers and 80 passengers were taken hostage. 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 Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. Klinghoffer age 69 was from New York City and was vacationing with his wife Marilyn and their friends when four heavily armed terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro cruise ship after it left Port Said Egypt. All 1090 passengers and crew had to leave the vessel in lifeboats.

Nine Bladers are chosen to battle between each other on a cruise ship for a chance to face the World Champion Valt Aoi in a match. Her superstructure has three decks. Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel.

On this page you will see two Deck plans the first is one hails from her Two Class days be it her Liner or early Cruise Days the Second is a plan taken from the 199192 Australian Cruise brochure being a One Class version but using her full capacity of 1343 passengers utilising all berths onboard. Klinghoffer was disabled and in a wheelchair the terrorists shot him in the chest and head and then forced two crew members to dump him and the wheelchair he was confined to over the side of the cruise ship. One person disabled American veteran Leon Klinghoffer is killed 1985.

7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. From the first round to the fourth round of the competition each Blader is given a star for every match won.

The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise ship. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell. Genoa Naples Alexandra Port Said Beirut Haifa Istanbul Piraeus Capri Genoa.