Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

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.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. 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. On October 7 the ship.

The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise ship. 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.

The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist was murdered and thrown overboard was captured. Achille Lauro hijacking. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell.

Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel. The attack lasted only two days. Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post.

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. In 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLF off the coast of Egypt as the ship made its way to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew.

I was 26 at the time and blown away by the experience. 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. As such I was the everyday point person in Washington for both US.