the sinking of the andrea doria

The ship was also considered one of the safest ever built. Equipped with a double hill, Andrea Doria was divided into eleven watertight compartments  . Any two of these could be filled with water without endangering the ship’s safety. Andrea Doria also carried enough lifeboats to accommodate all passengers and crew. Furthermore, the ship was equipped with the latest early warning radar. However, and despite its technological advantages, the ship had serious flaws concerning its seaworthiness and safety.

Because it sailed the southern Atlantic routes, Andrea Doria was the first ship to feature three outdoor swimming pool, one for each class (first, cabin and tourist). The ship was capable of accommodating 218 first class passengers, 320 cabin-class passengers, and 703 tourist-class passengers, and 563 crew on ten decks With over 1 million spent on artwork and the decor of the cabins and public rooms, including a life-size statue of Admiral Doria, many consider the ship to have been one of the most beautiful ocean liners ever built.

SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian line (Società di navigazione Italia) home ported in Genoa, 

Italy, most famous for its sinking in 1956, when 46 people died. Named after the 16th-century genoese admiral Andrea Doria, the ship had a gross register tonnage of 29,100 and a capacity of about 1,200 passengers and 500 crew. For a country attempting to rebuild its economy and reputation after world war 2, Andrea Doria was an icon of Italian national pride. Of all Italy's ships at the time, Andrea Doria was the largest, fastest and supposedly safest. Launched on 16 June 1951, the ship undertook its maiden voyage  on 14 January 1953.

On 25 July 1956, approaching the coast of nantucket , Massachusetts  , bound for New York city, Andrea Doria collided with the east-bound ms stockholm of the Swedish American line in what became one of history's most infamous maritime disaster. Struck in the side, the top-heavy Andrea Doriaimmediately started to list severely to starboard, which left half of her lifeboats  unusable. The consequent shortage of lifeboats might have resulted in significant loss of life, but improvements in communications and rapid responses by other ships averted a disaster similar in scale to the Titanic disaster of 1912. 1660 passengers and crew were rescued and survived, while 46 people died as a consequence of the collision. The evacuated luxury liner capsized and sank the following morning.

Eventually, it was determined that 46 passengers of Andrea Doria were killed in the collision area of their ship, among them Camille Cianfarra, a longtime foreign correspondent for the new york times  Five crew members of Stockholm whose cabins were located in the bow area and were in the impact area of their ship at the time of the collision also perished: three during the collision, and two more later from mortal injuries. The deaths of two Doria passengers were related to the rescue operation. There were hundreds of injuries, some from the collision and some sustained on the listing liner and during the evacuation process.

After the ships had separated, as Stockholm crew members were beginning to survey the damage, on the deck of Stockholm aft of the wrecked bow they discovered 14-year-old Linda Morgan without any major injury. It was soon determined that she had been an Andrea Doria passenger, had miraculously survived the impact, and had been somehow propelled far onto Stockholm deck. Her half sisier Joan, who had been sleeping in Cabin 52 with her on Andrea Doria, had perished, as did her stepfather. Camille Cianfarra had been in an adjacent cabin with her mother, who was seriously injured but survived and had to be extricated. The body of another Doria passenger (a middle-aged woman believed to be Mrs. Ruth Carlin), was also observed lodged in an inaccessible area of the wreckage of Stockholm's bow.

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