Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

All 1090 passengers and crew had to leave the vessel in lifeboats.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel. After an argument the four. Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post.

Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro leaves Port Said harbor on Oct. In their hands lied the fate of several passengers. Achille Lauro was refitted again in early 1972 during which she was severely damaged by a fire.

The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean Sea. I was engaged as the Protestant Chaplain on the Achille Lauro for a cruise from Australia to Asian ports and return in January 1971. Sydney 14708 Roma 14687.

It belonged to the Lauro LinesThe ship arrived in Alexandria. Unlike other C3 ships both Sydney Fencer and Roma Atheling were rebuilt as classy looking two class liners. Both Atheling and Fencer were purchased by Lauro Lines to be rebuilt as modern passenger liners.

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. On October 7 1985 the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was commandeered by four individuals identifying themselves as members of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF a breakaway faction of the Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO The hijacking occurred as the Achille Lauro drew close to Port Said Egypt on a short excur-. 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. On October 7 the ship. The original intent was to attack.