1956 Cruise Ship Disaster

It was set to transport 2500 Western Electric employees to a company picnic.

1956 cruise ship disaster. 128 people were killed in the disaster. The ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was rammed by MS Stockholm now Astoria on July 25 1956. The cargo ship ran aground on the Pentland Skerries Orkney Islands Scotland.

The Stockholm in 1956 after the collision near New York. It had been touted as unsinkable and set sail amongst great fanfare. In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left more than 4000 passengers stranded in the Gulf of Mexico with no hot water and few working toilets.

All 41 crew rescued by Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopters. It was taken at 158 pm just 5 minutes after the first one. TSMS Lakonia was a passenger ship launched in 1929 for Netherland Line as the ocean liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.

This is a longer version of the video that went viral. At around 1100 pm on 22 December a fire broke out in the ships hairdressing saloon and quickly spread to other areas making it difficult to fight the blaze. Concorde plane crash accident - a French aircraft with 100 Peter Deilmann cruise passengers booked on MS Deutschland crashed on takeoff from Paris France leaving no survivors.

The vessel was quickly underway again but at 1530 the ships Master Captain Vladislav Vorobyov warned the pilot about navigating too close to the shore. Which reads in accounts of the day like a particularly. 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.

In the 1930s Johan van Oldenbarnevelts regular route was between Amsterdam. In 1962 she became the Greek Line cruise ship TSMS Lakonia. 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.