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MS Costa Concordia in Palma, Majorca, in 2011. Costa Concordia (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, [1] was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. [2]
Francesco Schettino (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko sketˈtiːno]; born 14 November 1960) [1] is an Italian former shipmaster who commanded the cruise ship Costa Concordia when the ship struck an underwater rock and capsized off the Italian island of Giglio on 13 January 2012. [2] [3] Thirty-two passengers and crew died. In 2015, he was ...
Costa Concordia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔsta konˈkɔrdja]) was a cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere.She was the first of her class, followed by her sister ships Costa Serena, Costa Pacifica, Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa, and Carnival Splendor built for Carnival Cruise Line.
An Italian cruise ship docked in Japan for repairs has reported a coronavirus outbreak among the crew, Japanese officials said Wednesday. Thirty-three crew members on the Costa Atlantica, which ...
Italian media have posted an audio clip of the MSC Opera's pilot telling emergency officials that the cruise ship experienced a loss of controls and "activated all the procedures to avoid" a ...
ROME (Reuters) -An American publishing executive died after being knocked overboard in a boating accident off the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) said.
Eastern Star – On 1 June the river cruise ship capsized on an overnight voyage after being hit by a waterspout during severe weather while in the Damazhou waterway section of the Yangtze River. [5] [6] 442 2002 Bangladesh: Salahuddin-2 – On the night of 3 May, the ferry sank in the Meghna River south of Dhaka, killing more than 450 people ...
MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples, Italy.It was built between 1939 and 1947 as the ocean liner Willem Ruys for Royal Rotterdam Lloyd.In 1965 Achille Lauro bought the ship, had it converted into a cruise ship, and renamed it after himself.