Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. On 2 December 1994 while cruising off Somalia a major fire broke out in the ships engine room. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise ship.

The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front in 1985 who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisons. The Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy on October 3 for a 12-day cruise of the Mediterranean SeaAboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. In the early afternoon of October 7 1985 a member of the crew on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro bumped into four passengers who clearly had something to hide.

A tragic example of maritime terrorism. A port authority spokesman from Naples reported that when the ship left Italy there were 840 passengers on. In 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLF off the coast of Egypt as the ship made its way to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal.

On October 7 the ship. It took five months to repair her. U The Achille Lauro had departed from Naples Italy on 3 October.

Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro leaves Port Said harbor on Oct. The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro. In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean.

7 1985 by four Palestinian militants associated with a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front PLF. In their hands lied the fate of several passengers. On October 7 the ship docked at Alexandria Egypt and 651 passengers disembarked to tour the pyramids intending to rendezvous with the ship at Port Said that night.