Italian Cruise Ship Wreck

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Italian cruise ship wreck. A profile of 52-year-old Italian cruise liner captain Francesco Schettino jailed for manslaughter for his role in the Costa Concordia maritime disaster in January 2012. 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. On 13 January 2012 at 2145 Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.

Httpsabcnws2EQLcyTOut-of-control cruise ship crashes into tourist boat o. The wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia has been successfully raised from the under-sea platform it has been resting on for the past year salvage workers say. She was often fully booked setting a record for.

The mayor of Venice has said cruise ships must change their routes after a huge holiday vessel crashed into a. Italian Cruise Ship Captain Arrested After Deadly Wreck. Schettino the captain of the Italian cruise liner that ran aground off Italys west coast was arrested on the charges of multiple manslaughter causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship police said.

Search crews found five more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship which struck a reef off an Italian island in January officials said on Thursday. Between September 1932 and May 1940 she completed 202 crossings and three cruises. A man who spent his honeymoon on the Costa Concordia is now part of a team dismantling the cruise ship wreck two and a half years after it was holed and sank off Italy.

Italian Cruise Ship Wreck. The Italian ship which crashed January 13 2012 off the coast of Italy after hitting a rock was a tragedy that captured international headlines following dozens of deaths of passengers. In 1958 the Italian Line began planning new ships to replace the ageing MS Saturnia and MS Vulcania.

Missing Grows to 29 Six are reported dead and the captain is due in court Tuesday. Competition from jet airliners had not yet had a huge impact in the Mediterranean area and jobs were needed for Italian sailors and shipyard workers so constructing new superliners seemed like an attractive idea to Italian Line executives. Italys shipwreck captain.