1956 Cruise Ship Disaster

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1956 cruise ship disaster. 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. It was very nearly a disaster. It was set to transport 2500 Western Electric employees to a company picnic.

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11-day Christmas cruise carrying a total of 646 passengers and 376 crew. 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. A total of 46 people were killed in the collision.

The cargo ship sank 120 nautical miles 220 km south of Crete. Questions reign over where the captain was when passengers were evacuating. The avoidable disaster killed 32 people and seriously injured many others and left investigators wondering.

As the trawler pulled away there was a deafening sound of metal scraping against metal. The Stockholm in 1956 after the collision near New York. SS Southern Cross was an ocean liner built in 1955 by Harland Wolff Belfast Northern Ireland for the United Kingdom-based Shaw Savill Albion Line for EuropeAustralia service.

Which reads in accounts of the day like a particularly. 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. She was on an 11-day Christmas cruise of the Canary Islands sailing from Southampton with a brief visit to the Azores first.