Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

A tragic example of maritime terrorism.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. Achille Lauro returned to cruise service after the hijacking incident. After an argument the four. In the early afternoon of October 7 1985 a member of the crew on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro bumped into four passengers who clearly had something to hide.

I was 26 at the time and blown away by the experience. Both Atheling and Fencer were purchased by Lauro Lines to be rebuilt as modern passenger liners. Achille Lauro hijacking.

Usually many passengers got off toured Alexandria drove up to Cairo visited the museums and the pyramids and then. Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel. Three people were killed.

Sydney 14708 Roma 14687. It took five months to repair her. On October 7 1985 the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was commandeered by four individuals identifying themselves as members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF a breakaway faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO The hijacking occurred as the Achille Lauro drew close to Port Said Egypt on a short excur-.

It belonged to the Lauro LinesThe ship arrived in Alexandria. With Karl Malden Lee Grant EG. The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro.

Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury linerThe well. The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist was murdered and thrown overboard was captured. As such I was the everyday point person in Washington for both US.