SS ANDREA DORIA in Final Stage of Sinking. The death of the SS ANDREA DORIA is almost complete as the sea swallows all but part of the stern. An empty lifeboat drifts aimlessly, a small relic of the Italian 656-foot luxury liner. Her tragic ending was the result of a collision with the Swedish liner SS STOCKHOLM in fog approximately 205 miles east of New York, 55 miles south of Nantucket Island on July 25, 1956. Participants in rescue operations included the SS CAPE ANN, SS ILE de FRANCE, Coast Guard cutters and seaplanes and helicopters, and Air Force helicopters. The ANDREA DORIA c
SS ANDREA DORIA in Final Stage of Sinking. The death of the SS ANDREA DORIA is almost complete as the sea swallows all but part of the stern. An empty lifeboat drifts aimlessly, a small relic of the Italian 656-foot luxury liner. Her tragic ending was the result of a collision with the Swedish liner SS STOCKHOLM in fog approximately 205 miles east of New York, 55 miles south of Nantucket Island on July 25, 1956. Participants in rescue operations included the SS CAPE ANN, SS ILE de FRANCE, Coast Guard cutters and seaplanes and helicopters, and Air Force helicopters. The ANDREA DORIA carried 1,000 passengers and 500 crew members.
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Photo credit: © NB/USC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 17-a2-251, 26-, coast, guard, history, job, rdss, rg
