1966 Cruise Ship Fire

A total of 128 people died on the Lakonia 95 passengers and 33 crew - but of these fewer than half perished in the fire itself.

1966 cruise ship fire. The SS Yarmouth Castle bound for a gala weekend in Nassau with 550 aboard was swept by fire before dawn and sank in the Atlantic after a spectacular four-hour rescue operation. Was in grave danger because of a ticking A-bomb in the engine room of the Golden Princess. She was destroyed by a galley fire during a Caribbean cruise in March 1979.

Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd she was hijacked by members of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985. By the time dazed passengers stumbled into smoke-filled corridors in. The ship was sailing from Bergen Norway to the town of Kirkenes when the fire started.

Island Explorer ex-Nordnorge 1964 Broken up. On July 6 1996 a cruise ship sailing from San Francisco to Vancouver BC. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas catches fire.

A fire broke out in the engine room of the cruise ship on September 15 2011 with 207 passengers onboard. Green Coast ex-Litva 1956 Sunk. No injuries have been reported following the fire.

In 1978 Angelina Lauro was chartered to Costa. In other incidents she also suffered two serious collisions and four onboard fires or explosions. Credit providerREUTERS In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left more.

In 1972 she became a full time cruise ship. The Poop Cruise Without working bathrooms passengers were forced to drop their payloads into red hazardous waste bags and stuff them into garbage cans left in the hall. Angelina Lauro finally re-entered service from Europe to Australia and New Zealand in 1966.