Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro
The ship was declared a total loss.
Italian cruise ship achille lauro. As such I was the everyday point person in Washington for both US. 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. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.
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. At the end of 1972 her liner service ended and from then onwards she sailed as a full-time cruise ship. The ship was scheduled to take an 11-day cruise with stops in Naples Syracuse Sicily.
The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell. It belonged to the Lauro LinesThe ship arrived in Alexandria. I was engaged as the Protestant Chaplain on the Achille Lauro for a cruise from Australia to Asian ports and return in January 1971.
On 7 October 1985 a group of four terrorists belonging to the pro-Syrian faction FLP Palestine Liberation Front of the Palestinian group PLO hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro owned by a Neapolitan shipping company the heir of the legendary Fleet Lauro while it was at anchor near the Egyptian coast. Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post. The fire lasted for three days.
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 the ship. 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.
Unlike other C3 ships both Sydney Fencer and Roma Atheling were rebuilt as classy looking two class liners. The attack lasted only two days. In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean.
