1980's Cruise Ship Sinking

Prinsendam Holland America Line The Prinsendam was traveling the Gulf of Alaska about 140 miles from the Alaska coast near Yakutat Alaska on Oct 4 1980.

1980's cruise ship sinking. Description from Coast Guard. Cruise lawyers can pinpoint where the cruise ship line failed to provide safety and welfare of its customers. February 11 2021 Rusunawa.

While many of those recorded no fatalities the idea of going down like Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet is enough to keep superstitious travelers on dry land. At the beginning of most cruise ship sailings the passengers gather for a safety lecture. In 1980 the United States Coast Guard Cutter USCGC Mellon assisted in the rescue of 520 passengers and crewmembers from the burning luxury liner Prinsendam operated by Holland America Line.

MS Prinsendam fire and sinking 4 October 1980. In 2013 the New York Times did a study and found that between 1980 and 2012 16 cruise ships have sunk with most being in inhospitable waters doing adventure cruises such as visiting Antarctica or smaller vessels that got caught in sudden storms such as the Estona which sank in 1994 killing more than 800 people in the Baltic Sea. The ship sank seven days later US.

The Williamsburg brought 359 passengers and crew safely to Valdez. On board were 571 passengers and crew sailing into a storm which would soon claim another ship. There were no fatalities and no serious injuries.

The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic in 1912 with over 1500 fatalities is probably the most famous shipwreck but not the biggest in terms of lives lostThe wartime sinking of the German Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945 in World War II by a Soviet Navy submarine with an estimated loss of about 9400 people remains the deadliest isolated maritime disaster ever. Muriel Collins Barnett 80 Murder Royal Viking Star Passenger August 19 1989 Time of Death is unknown. It goes into the cause of the fire in the early hours of October 4 1980 a high-pressure fuel line ruptured spraying hot oil onto the main engine exhaust manifold and engulfing the engine room in.

The cruise ship Prinsendam was built in 1973 for Holland America Line. Al-Salaam Boccaccio 02-02-06 Ethan Allen 10-02-05 Explorer 11-23-07 MV Saurav 02-28-08. The Prinsendam was a 427-foot-long cruise liner built in 1973 at Shipyard de Merwede in the Netherlands.