Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. A tragic example of maritime terrorism. At the end of 1972 her liner service ended and from then onwards she sailed as a full-time cruise ship. On October 7 1985 the Achille Lauro an Italian-flag cruise ship was seized while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said The hijackers members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF a faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization PLO2 had boarded the ship.

After an argument the four. The fire lasted for three days. In their hands lied the fate of several passengers.

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. On 2 December 1994 while cruising off Somalia a major fire broke out in the ships engine room. A port authority spokesman from Naples reported that when the ship left Italy there were 840 passengers on.

The ship was declared a total loss. 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. 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.

Directed by Robert L. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean SeaAboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. As such I was the everyday point person in Washington for both US.

Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury linerThe well. 7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. Port Said Ashdod Israel Cyprus and the island of Rhodes.