Italian Cruise Ship Achille Lauro

Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro leaves Port Said harbor on Oct.

Italian cruise ship achille lauro. On October 7 the ship. The ship was declared a total loss. In October 1985 four Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean.

With Karl Malden Lee Grant EG. Named after the chairman of the company that came to own her the ship her keel. Three people were killed.

The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in which a disabled American tourist was murdered and thrown overboard was captured. I embarked in Sydney and the cruise was lengthy about 30 days. U The Achille Lauro had departed from Naples Italy on 3 October.

In the early afternoon of October 7 1985 a member of the crew on the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro bumped into four passengers who clearly had something to hide. As part of its Learn from the past series SAFETY4SEA remembers the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1985 by four heavily armed Palestinian militants who posed as passengers resulting to the brutal murder of one passenger. 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.

In 1985 the Italian cruise ship MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by armed terrorists representing the Palestine Liberation Front PLF off the coast of Egypt as the ship made its way to Port Said at the mouth of the Suez Canal. Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria Egypt in order to hijack the luxury linerThe well. Ian Diamond not verified on Sun 2021-01-31 1246.

Both Atheling and Fencer were purchased by Lauro Lines to be rebuilt as modern passenger liners. It took five months to repair her. The Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise liner from hell.