“Collission Course” scheepsramp Andrea Doria en de Stockholm (Astoria)

Beschrijving

“Collission Course” , het fascinerende boek over de scheepsramp met de Andrea Doria en de Stockholm.
Door Alvin Moscow, uitgever Longmans Green & Co Londen, originele eerste editie 1959, in het Engels, 238 pagina’s en15 extra pagina’s met zwart/wit foto’s.
This is the fascinating account of the collision of the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm. 
One of the largest, fastest, and most beautiful ships in the world, the Andrea Doria was en route to New York from Genoa Italy. Departing from the United States was the much smaller Stockholm. On the foggy night of July 25, 1956, fifty-three miles southeast of Nantucket, off  the coast of Martha's Vinyard, the Stockholm sliced through the Doria's steel hull. Within minutes, the sea was pouring into the Italian liner. Eleven hours later, she capsized and sank into the ocean.
Associated Press journalist Alvin Moscow recounts the heroic, rapid response of other ships - which averted a catastrophe of the same scale as that of the Titanic - and the official inquest.
Alvin Moscow delivers a fact-filled, fascinating drama of how a supposedly unsinkable ship ended up at the bottom of the sea.
Opm.: de Stockholm, later omgedoopt tot Astoria, ligt al tijden in de Rotterdamse haven en is te koop voor 2 ton.