2011 Italy Cruise Ship Accident

The ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was rammed by MS Stockholm now Astoria on July 25 1956.

2011 italy cruise ship accident. MSC Cruises brand new Grandiosa ship crashed into a pier as it attempted to dock in Palermo Sicily around 830 am. People started to panic. A video of the crash which happened on Sunday morning after the 13-deck MSC Opera experienced an engine failure shows people on land fleeing as the ship.

On January 13 2012 the cruise ship Costa Concordia a 114500-ton vessel valued at 450 million USD struck a rock and capsized off the coast of the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio Italy. Thirty-two people died after the Costa Concordia cruis ship ran aground with more than 4000 passengers and crew on 13 January 2012 only hours after leaving the Italian port of Civitavecchia. More than 4200 people were rescued though 32 people died.

Technicians pass in a small boat near the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia lying aground in front of the Isola del Giglio on January 26 2012. Eyewitnesses have described scenes of chaos on board the Italian cruise ship the Costa Concordia which has run aground off Italy. Francesco Schettino captain of Italys doomed Costa Concordia cruise ship on Monday blamed the Indonesian helmsman for causing the accident that killed 32 people.

A total of 46 people were killed in the collision. Earlier Saturday Schettino told Italian television that the vessel had hit a rocky spur while cruising in waters which according to the charts should have been safe on Italys west coast. Construction and maiden voyage.

When the 114137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130000 GT Dream-class cruise ships. The cruise ship MSC Opera R is seen after the collision with a tourist boat in Venice Italy June 2 2019. On 13 January 2012 the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia ran aground capsized and later sank in shallow waters after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio Tuscany resulting in 32 deathsThe eight-year-old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when she deviated from her planned route at Isola del Giglio sailed closer to the island.

I wanted to slow the ship down. The cruise ship smashed into a dock located on the Giudecca canal in Venice this morning. On 13 January 2012 at 2145 Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.