Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. A port authority spokesman from Naples reported that when the ship left Italy there were 840 passengers on. Embassy Rome headed by Ambassador Maxwell Rabb and the Italian embassy in Washington under Ambassador Rinaldo Petrignani. Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel.

Three people were killed. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. Port Said Ashdod Israel Cyprus and the island of Rhodes.

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. I embarked in Sydney and the cruise was lengthy about 30 days. On October 7 the ship docked at Alexandria Egypt and 651 passengers disembarked to tour the pyramids intending to rendezvous with the ship at Port Said that night.

Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury linerThe well. At the end of 1972 her liner service ended and from then onwards she sailed as a full-time cruise ship. Achille Lauro hijacking.

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985 who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons. A tragic example of maritime terrorism. The original intent was to attack.

10 1985 after Egyptian authorities stopped it from sailing to the Israeli port of Ashdod. It took five months to repair her. 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.