Achillea Lauro Cruise Ship

Achille Lauro hijacking.

Achillea lauro cruise ship. A tragic example of maritime terrorism. She lay there for a year until the Italian Government. 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.

11 as three F-14s circled overhead effectively closing the airspace for all other aircraft except. Heavily targeted at the Australian market and a bit cringy at time. Aboard were 748 passengers and several hundred crew.

Achille Lauro returned to cruise service after the hijacking incident. The route was from North Europe Bremerhaven Rotterdam Southampton-Genoa-Sydney-Wellington which operated until 1972 when Achille Lauro became a fulltime cruise ship. She was laid up in Tenerife when the Lauro Lines went bankrupt in 1982.

Syria refused to permit the ship to. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell. The Achille Lauro traveled to the Syrian port of Tartus where the terrorists demanded negotiations on October 8.

Achille Lauro was refitted again in early 1972 during which she was severely damaged by a fire. In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. At this juncture highly trained US.

Days later the ship docked in Egypt and the hijackers and their ringleader were being flown to safety aboard an Egyptian state. Interestingly enough it was named after the Mayor of Naples when I was in Naples my first post. 197576 fares commenced from 386 or September 2016 - A679 for an.