Achille Lauro Cruise Ship

Lauro Lines were in financial trouble by the late 1970s and the Achille Lauro was arrested in Tenerife in 1982.

Achille lauro cruise ship. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew. On 3 October 1985 the Achille Lauro left Genoa Italy for a 12-day cruise in the Mediterranean Sea with 748 passengers. The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8.

The terrorists took control of the cruise ship in the Mediterranean off Egypt as it was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said Egypt. She was laid up in Tenerife when the Lauro Lines went bankrupt in 1982. Genoa Naples Alexandra Port Said Beirut Haifa Istanbul Piraeus Capri Genoa.

She lay there for a year until the Italian Government arranged to have her brought back to Genoa. The MS Achille Lauro. OCIMF Principles on Human Factor.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak persuaded the hijackers to surrender but not before they shot to death a wheelchair-bound Jewish passenger from the United States. Heavily targeted at the Australian market and a bit cringy at time. I was 26 at the time and blown away by the experience.

Be assured that I am NOT associated with any shipping or cruise companies or any travelcruise. Achille Lauro hijacking hijacking of the Italian cruise ship the MS Achille Lauro on Oct. The MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples.

Achille Lauro now sailed on cruise after cruise until disaster struck. Usually many passengers got off toured Alexandria drove up to Cairo visited the museums and the pyramids and then rejoined the ship at Port Said. Klinghoffer was disabled and in a wheelchair the terrorists shot him in the chest and head and then forced two crew members to dump him and.