Seventy years ago, an Italian ocean liner collided with a Swedish ship off the coast of Nantucket. The Andrea Doria sank just south of the island on July 26, 1956. While 51 people were killed in the ...
Nearly six decades after 46 people died when the Andrea Doria sank to the sea floor off Nantucket, explorers are planning to take another look at the wreck FILE - In this July 26, 1956 file photo, the ...
The impact of a collision killed 46 passengers of the Andrea Doria in their cabins, historians say. The ship sank 11 hours later after the rest of the passengers were rescued. Photo courtesy of ...
"It's so important to keep the memory alive," says Pierette Domenica Simpson. "It's a historical event that should never be forgotten." Seventy years after the sinking of the Andrea Doria, Simpson, a ...
On August 4, 1998, Mike Dudas got his first look at the wreck of the Andrea Doria. Lying on her starboard side in the cold Atlantic waters about 50 miles south of Nantucket, the 700-foot cruise liner ...
The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm off Nantucket, Massachusetts, in July 1956. Divers have been drawn to the wreck for decades. Some 240 feet beneath ...