Heres the story of the only collision between two ocean liners in world history.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
What happened to the Andrea Doria ship?
Like theTitanic,theAndrea Doriahad been described as unsinkable.
Forty-six people died in the initial impact and an additional five died later.
But nearly 1,200 passengers were safely rescued.
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The ship was named after a 16th-century Italian admiral who was known as the father of his country.
The ship was a gleaming, high-tech testament to Italys renewed confidence after losing World War II.
It was not the first ship called theAndrea Doria.
Since Andrea Doria was a national hero, Italians had been naming ships after him since at least 1885.
It was finally scrapped in 1957a year after the tragic sinking of theAndrea Doriacruise liner.
Compared to theDoria,theStockholmwas a small ship, weighing in at 12,000.
TheDoriahad set sail from Italy on July 17 with roughly 1,200 passengers and 500 crew members.
We all knew something was wrong.
The movie screen and projector tumbled over.
Dinnerware on shelves behind us avalanched down.
Then the ship dipped further, to 25 degrees.
B and C decks were completely flooded.
Thats when terror really set in.
Mother, sister, and I clung to the ships high side.
The interior was filled with smoke.
Splintered steel and lumber were everywhere.
There was nowhere to go.
It was foggy and dark.
There was no sign of help.
When theStockholmfirst struck the side of theAndrea Doria,forty-six people were crushed to death instantly.
Three more were to perish during after the evacuation.
The Miracle Girl who survived.
Amid all the lost life, there is one story of survival that borders on the miraculous.
She survived, and the New York papers took to calling her the Miracle Girl.
The heroic evacuation that saved every person who wasnt killed by the initial collision.
8. Who was at fault?
TheAndrea Doriain pop culture.
