Sun Vista Cruise Ship Sinking

In 1979 she was converted to a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names Galileo and Meridian.

Sun vista cruise ship sinking. A stinging report by the Bahamas Maritime Authority BMA on the sinking in the Malacca Straits of the Singapore cruise ship Sun Vista in May last year cites serious deficiencies in the vessel its safety and life-saving equipment and safety management system. It sank in the Atlantic after a collision with another cruise ship. The Sun Vista slowly sank deeper and deeper by the stern for seven hours.

All saved as liner sinks. More than 1100 passengers and crew aboard a luxury cruise liner have been rescued after it caught fire and sank off the western coast of Malaysia. Remembering the SUNDREAM.

Other spectacular sinkings of cruise ships include the loss of the Sun Vista which burned and sank. On Thursday 20 May 1999 a Bahamas-registered cruise ship Sun Vista operated by a Singapore company Sun Cruises caught fire in the Malacca Strait southwest of Penang. Any Price 250 or less 251 - 500 501 - 1000 1001 - 1500 1501 - 2000 2001 - 3000 3000 or more.

No one can forget the sinking of the Andrea Doria which ironically enough was home ported in Genoa Italy where Costa is based. Admiral Nakhimov sank got rammed 31st Aug 1986. Watch incredible footage of this ship going under.

The Beautiful Sun Vista previously SS Meridian Location. Beautiful photo by Tim Noble showing the 1963 built GALILEO GALILEI here as the SUN VISTA arriving the Singapore Cruise Terminal in 1997 prior to start her first cruise operated by SUN CRUISES. Sun Vista cruise ship we sailed.

27888 GRT 701 x 938 feet Twin Screw geared De Laval turbines from builders 255 knots 44000 shaft horsepower 156 First Class 1594 Tourist Class passengers. The picture that emerges from the report is that the ship was in such poor mechanical and safety-related condition that the BMA questions whether it. January 2020 February 2020 March 2020 April 2020 May 2020 June 2020.