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The first artists to remember the tragedy of the Morro Castle were the members of the Trio Matamoros of Santiago de Cuba, with the song "El desastre del Morro Castle" (1934). The Morro Castle disaster occurred when the musical Anything Goes, a comedy set aboard an ocean liner, was about to open. Under the circumstances, the producers decided ...
Hundreds of survivors from the S.S. Morro Castle disaster are brought ashore and cared for at the Spring Lake firehouse in this Asbury Park Press clipping published on Monday, September 10, 1934.
Morro Castle (1930) – During the early morning hours of 8 September, while en route from Havana to New York, the passenger liner caught fire and burned, killing 137 passengers and crew members out of the 549 aboard.
SS Morro Castle may refer to: SS Morro Castle (1900) A ship launched by the Ward Line and scrapped in 1926. SS ...
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At about 0230 on the morning of 8 September 1934, a fire broke out aboard the ocean liner SS Morro Castle as she was returning from a Cuba cruise. The fires spread rapidly, and inept seamanship on the behalf of her captain – who had only taken command after the ship's regular master had died earlier that evening – resulted in the loss of ...
This 18th-century manuscript map shows the plan of Morro Castle, located at the entrance of Havana Bay, Cuba. The fortress was built by the Spaniards, starting in 1585. The Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro (English: "Castle of the Three Kings of Morro" ), also known as Castillo del Morro (Morro Castle), is a fortress guarding the entrance ...
The Morro Castle remained on the sandbar throughout the fall and winter, spurring an economic boomlet for Asbury Park, which had been suffering from the effects of the Great Depression. Thousands of curious spectators and reporters lined both the boardwalk and Convention Hall's promenade to see the ship's charred remains, and both city ...