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A full-scale emergency was only declared at 02:30. Mariella winched open liferafts into the sea onto which 13 people on Estonia ' s rafts successfully transferred, and reported the location of other rafts to Swedish and Finnish rescue helicopters, the first of which arrived at 03:05.
The captain was sentenced to 16 years in prison while the first officer received a 19-year sentence. January 13, 2012: Captain Francesco Schettino abandoned his ship before hundreds of passengers had been evacuated during the Costa Concordia disaster. 32 people died in the accident. Schettino was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in ...
Arvo is a Finnish and Estonian given name for males and may refer to: Arvo Aalto (born 1932), Finnish politician; Arvo Aaltonen (1892–1949), Finnish swimmer and Olympic medalist; Arvo Aller (born 1973), Estonian politician; Arvo Andresson (1954–1994), captain of MS Estonia; Arvo Askola (1909–1975), Finnish track and field athlete and ...
Avdy Andresson (15 November 1899 in Viluvere, Estonia – 27 August 1990 in Deerfield, New Jersey, United States) was the Estonian Minister of War in exile from April 3, 1973, until two months before his death on June 20, 1990, and disputed Commander of Armed Forces (Estonian: Sõjavägede Juhataja) from 14 October 1975.
Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck by C. S. Forester.It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. [4]
The ship's commander, Kapitän zur See (KzS–Captain at Sea) Karl Topp, [22] pronounced the ship ready for combat operations on 10 January 1942. [20] The following day, Tirpitz left for Wilhelmshaven, a move designed to conceal her actual destination. [21] The ship left Wilhelmshaven at 23:00 on 14 January and made for Trondheim. [21]
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking in 1956, which included the remarkably successful rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew.
The basic idea of building such a ship is said to come from famous Laeisz captain Robert Hilgendorf, commander of the five-masted steel barque Potosi. Story has it that Kaiser Wilhelm II, while visiting Potosi on 18 June 1899, asked Carl H. Laeisz when the five-masted full-rigged ship will finally "come". This inspired Laeisz to build the ship.