Cruise Ship Death Due to Rough Seas - Same Ship That Sank the Andrea Doria 50 Years Ago
British man dies aboard cruise ship
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/529076.html
Nova Scotia RCMP are investigating the death of a 70-year-old British man aboard a cruise ship that docked recently in Halifax. The man is thought to have fallen down a stairway aboard the MV Athena during rough weather. No foul play is suspected. The 482-passenger Athena was travelling from Falmouth, England, to St. John’s, N.L., but docked in Halifax because of rough weather, including some heavy seas with nine-metre waves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/nyregion/23ship.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=login
By ALAN FEUER
Published: September 23, 2006
Among its oceangoing sisters, the S.S. Stockholm has always been infamous as the ill-fated vessel that struck and sank the Italian liner Andrea Doria in dense fog off Nantucket 50 years ago. The collision — on July 25, 1956 — resulted not only in 51 deaths and the daring rescue of hundreds from the swells of the Atlantic; it also assured a name for the Stockholm as “the death ship” of the high seas.
Steaming out of Falmouth last week, the 16,000-tonner built in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1948, lived up to its past, encountering weather that the British aboard described by turns as “frightful,” “a spot rough,” “very heavy” and “bloody terrifyingly bad.” “Everybody was buffeted around,” said Katharyn Anderson, a homemaker from Devon traveling with her brother, Brian Thomson. “Plates were flying, cups, glasses, everything. They had to take the glass tables down and lay them on the floor.” Ms. Anderson and other passengers said the 40-foot swells and gale- force winds were in fact so strong that an unfortunate 70-year-old doctor was knocked to the floor on Tuesday night and died. It just happened,” he said with a shrug. “A lot of bad things happen on the sea.”
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/529076.html
Nova Scotia RCMP are investigating the death of a 70-year-old British man aboard a cruise ship that docked recently in Halifax. The man is thought to have fallen down a stairway aboard the MV Athena during rough weather. No foul play is suspected. The 482-passenger Athena was travelling from Falmouth, England, to St. John’s, N.L., but docked in Halifax because of rough weather, including some heavy seas with nine-metre waves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/nyregion/23ship.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=login
By ALAN FEUER
Published: September 23, 2006
Among its oceangoing sisters, the S.S. Stockholm has always been infamous as the ill-fated vessel that struck and sank the Italian liner Andrea Doria in dense fog off Nantucket 50 years ago. The collision — on July 25, 1956 — resulted not only in 51 deaths and the daring rescue of hundreds from the swells of the Atlantic; it also assured a name for the Stockholm as “the death ship” of the high seas.
Steaming out of Falmouth last week, the 16,000-tonner built in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1948, lived up to its past, encountering weather that the British aboard described by turns as “frightful,” “a spot rough,” “very heavy” and “bloody terrifyingly bad.” “Everybody was buffeted around,” said Katharyn Anderson, a homemaker from Devon traveling with her brother, Brian Thomson. “Plates were flying, cups, glasses, everything. They had to take the glass tables down and lay them on the floor.” Ms. Anderson and other passengers said the 40-foot swells and gale- force winds were in fact so strong that an unfortunate 70-year-old doctor was knocked to the floor on Tuesday night and died. It just happened,” he said with a shrug. “A lot of bad things happen on the sea.”
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