1998 Cruise Ship Fire

The incident left one person dead and 14 others injured.

1998 cruise ship fire. Fire On the afternoon of July 20 1998 Ecstasy departed the Port of Miami Florida en route to Key West Florida with 2565 passengers and 916 crew members aboard. Total damage from the fire has been evaluated at 17 million. A Royal Caribbean cruise ship bound for the Bahamas catches fire.

And caused massive amounts of smoke throughout the ship. Credit providerREUTERS In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left. A report from the Los Angeles Times stated Five crewmen died of smoke and chemical fumes in a fire off the coast of Alaska About 70 of the 732 people aboard were injured In the article entitled Fire Kills 5 Injures 76 on Alaska Cruise it stated that the fire occurred at 311 am.

1998 12 AM PT. The ships on-board system did not suppress the fire which charred the entire stern of the ship. About 60 people were reported injured most for smoke inhalation.

The MSC has agreed that future large passenger ships should be designed for improved survivability based on the time-honoured principle that a ship is its own best lifeboat. Cruise Ship Catches Fire Off Florida. The blue sky soon after the 855-foot vessel cleared the port of Miami and headed for what was to have been a first-leg cruise.

The Carnival Ecstasy after a 1998 fire. There were a couple of interesting photographs of the fire which erupted aboard the Carnival Ecstasy in 1998 as the cruise ship was trying to said out of Government Cut at Miami Beach. Ecstasy was leaving the Port of Miami bound for Key West Fla July 20 1998 when dense smoke began billowing from its stern PM 35.

We dont have any details of how the fire has st. The fire broke out shortly after leaving the Port of Miami with 2557 passengers and 920 crewmembers onboard. The MSC Lirica Cruise Ship is on fire and burning in the port of Corfu Greece.