Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

I was engaged as the Protestant Chaplain on the Achille Lauro for a cruise from Australia to Asian ports and return in January 1971.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. 10 1985 after Egyptian authorities stopped it from sailing to the Israeli port of Ashdod. The original intent was to attack. I was 26 at the time and blown away by the experience.

The ship was scheduled to take an 11-day cruise with stops in Naples Syracuse Sicily. Achille Lauro returned to cruise service after the hijacking incident. With Karl Malden Lee Grant EG.

Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. Achille Lauro hijacking. It took five months to repair her.

U The Achille Lauro had departed from Naples Italy on 3 October. After an argument the four. The attack lasted only two days.

8 1985 the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro ah-KEE-leh LOW-roh killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer who was in a wheelchair and threw his body overboard. Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury linerThe well. In 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLF off the coast of Egypt as the ship made its way to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal.

A port authority spokesman from Naples reported that when the ship left Italy there were 840 passengers on. It took five months to repair her. On 7 October 1985 a group of four terrorists belonging to the pro-Syrian faction FLP Palestine Liberation Front of the Palestinian group PLO hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro owned by a Neapolitan shipping company the heir of the legendary Fleet Lauro while it was at anchor near the Egyptian coast.