Achillea Lauro Cruise Ship

MS Achille Lauro 1965-94 - Deck Plans.

Achillea lauro cruise ship. Gerhard Szimke 68 Ship Sinking Death Achille Lauro Passenger November 30 1994 Time of Death 130 On November 30 1994 the Achille Lauro caught fire 150 miles off the coast of Somalia and then. 11 as three F-14s circled overhead effectively closing the airspace for all other aircraft except. The Boeing 737 touched down on the runway of NAS Sigonella at 0015 on Oct.

Lauro Lines were in financial trouble by the late 1970s and the Achille Lauro was arrested in Tenerife in 1982. Usually many passengers got off toured Alexandria drove up to Cairo visited the museums and the pyramids and then. As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger.

The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise ship. It belonged to the Lauro LinesThe ship arrived in Alexandria. 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.

Be assured that I am NOT associated with any shipping or cruise companies or any travelcruise. It took five months to repair her. Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post.

Achille Lauro returned to cruise service after the hijacking incident. The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8. Genoa Naples Alexandra Port Said Beirut Haifa Istanbul Piraeus Capri Genoa.

They killed an elderly American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw him and his wheelchair overboard. She lay there for a year until the Italian Government. To capture or kill the terrorists before they could harm any of the Achille Lauro passengers or crew.