1966 Cruise Ship Fire

Was in grave danger because of a ticking A-bomb in the engine room of the Golden Princess.

1966 cruise ship fire. The bomb was set to explode at the dock in Vancouver so it was not only the cruise ship that would have been destroyed along with all the passengers but also the city itself would become another Hiroshima. Eugenio C 1966 Linea C Costa Line. She was destroyed by a galley fire during a Caribbean cruise in March 1979.

The 656 passengers on the Oceania Insignia were evacuated safely and the remainder of the cruise was cancelled Oceania Cruises said. Monte ex-Free State Mariner Monterey 1960 Broken up. The famous fire on the Carnival Triumph that left 4200 passengers standard at sea when the fire knocked out power to the ship and left it adrift.

The ship was sailing from Bergen Norway to the town of Kirkenes when the fire started. The SS Yarmouth Castle bound for a gala weekend in Nassau with 550 aboard was swept by fire before dawn and sank in the Atlantic after a spectacular four-hour rescue operation. In 1978 Angelina Lauro was chartered to Costa.

Green Coast ex-Litva 1956 Sunk. Cruise passenger accident claims. In 1972 she became a full time cruise ship.

The Carnival Ecstasy after a 1998 fire. A generator fire on Carnival Cruise Liness Triumph now called Carnival Sunrise left the ship powerless and a late-night comedy punchline was born. A fire broke out on the MSC cruise ship and it appears to be mid-ship on the starboard side.

CNNs Erin McPike reports. Angelina Lauro finally re-entered service from Europe to Australia and New Zealand in 1966. A total of 128 people died on the Lakonia 95 passengers and 33 crew - but of these fewer than half perished in the fire itself.