1956 Cruise Ship Disaster

It would turn out to be one of the worst cruise ship disasters in history.

1956 cruise ship disaster. Questions reign over where the captain was when passengers were evacuating. As the trawler pulled away there was a deafening sound of metal scraping against metal. She was on an 11-day Christmas cruise of the Canary Islands sailing from Southampton with a brief visit to the Azores first.

Cantieri Riuniti dell Adriatico. The Costa Concordia disaster Italian police escort the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner Francesco Schettino on January 14. Twenty-two families perished when the cruise ship sank.

A Taiwanese trawler Terfu 51 had accidentally rammed the ship leaving a six-foot gash in the side. 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. The ship took on a different kind of notoriety however after colliding with an opulent Italian ocean liner the Andrea Doria in a 1956 maritime disaster that killed 51 people.

128 people were killed in the disaster. It was very nearly a disaster. While at its Chicago port the ship tipped over killing 844 people.

11-day Christmas cruise carrying a total of 646 passengers and 376 crew. The ship drifted to within 100 metres of running aground before they were able to restart one of the engines police. In 1975 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names Calypso Azure Seas and OceanBreeze until 2003 when she was sold for scrap to Ahmed Muztaba Steel Industries.

All 41 crew rescued by Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopters. All crew rescued by San Carlo Italy. The PA system wasnt working properly on the boat but the safety officer ran downstairs to survey the damage.