1934 Cruise Ship Fire
According to local news reports 51 crew members were on board when the fire started.
1934 cruise ship fire. The schooner caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean and was abandoned. Shipping History reminds us that on this day in 1994 the MS Achille Lauro cruise ship caught fire and later sank near Somalia following an engine explosion. Joseph Bregstein were aboard the Ward Line.
The SS Morro Castle named after a fortress that guards Havana Bay was a luxury cruise ship of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for runs between New York City and Havana. On September 7 the ships captain Robert Wilmott went to his cabin with what he thought was an upset stomach but later died of. The MSC Lirica Cruise Ship is on fire and burning in the port of Corfu Greece.
On the morning of September 8 1934 en route from Havana to New York the ship caught fire and burned killing 137 passengers and crew members. Mervyn Bregstein 8 Cruise Ship Fire SS Morro Castle Passenger September 8 1934 Time of Death 250-600. Additional images are located below the description Offered is an original historic collectible old newspaper.
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All 11 passengers were flown to the nearby port of Mariehamn in the Aland Islands while the 28 crew members put out the fire. The Sea Wind was en route from the southwestern Finnish port of Turku to Stockholm Sweden when a fire broke out in the engine room at about 240 am. CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE September 8 1934.
The ship was a regular booze cruise But in September 1934 the ship was returning from Cuba to New York when everything seemed to go wrong. First Photo Of Blazing Moro Castle Where Hundreds Perished. CHARGES SHIP WAS FIRED with two large photos one headed.
