How many people were killed when the ocean liner captained by Piero Calamai collided with the MS "Stockholm"?
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Piero Calamai Piero Calamai (25 December 1897 – 7 April 1972) was the Italian captain of the SS "Andrea Doria" when it sank in July 1956 after colliding with the MS "Stockholm".
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SS Andrea Doria SS "Andrea Doria", ] , was an ocean liner for the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia) home ported in Genoa, Italy, most famous for her sinking in 1956, when 46 people were killed.
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Miyazaki Maru Miyazaki Maru (宮崎丸 ) was an 8,520-ton Japanese ocean liner built in 1909 by Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd. in Kobe. While steaming from Yokohama, Japan, to London during World War I, she was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 150 miles to the west of the Isles of Scilly on 31 May 1917 by the Imperial German Navy submarine "U-88" , with the loss of eight lives.
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SS City of Rio de Janeiro The SS "City of Rio de Janeiro" was an iron-hulled steam-powered passenger ship, launched in 1878, which sailed between San Francisco and various Asian Pacific ports. On 22 February 1901, the vessel sank after striking a submerged reef at the entry to San Francisco Bay while inward bound from Hong Kong. Of the approximately 220 passengers and crew on board, fewer than 85 people survived the sinking, while 135 others were killed in the catastrophe. The wreck lies in 287 ft of water just off the Golden Gate and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as nationally significant.
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1947 Ramdas ship disaster 1947 "Ramdas" ship disaster occurred near Bombay (now Mumbai) in India. The Indian passenger ship SS "Ramdas", while bound for Rewas in Maharashtra, capsized on 17 July 1947, near Gull Island (Kashyacha Khadak), ten miles from Colaba Point, killing 690 of the people on board.
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SS Admiral Nakhimov SS "Admiral Nakhimov (Russian: Адмирал Нахимов ), launched in March 1925 and originally named SS "Berlin, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic later converted to a hospital ship, then a Soviet passenger ship. On 31 August 1986, "Admiral Nakhimov" collided with the large bulk carrier "Pyotr Vasev" in the Tsemes Bay, near the port of Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, and quickly sank. In total, 423 of the 1,234 people on board died.
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SS Principessa Mafalda The SS Principessa Mafalda was an Italian transatlantic ocean liner built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) company. Named after Princess Mafalda of Savoy, second daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III, the ship entered NGI's South American service between Genoa and Buenos Aires in 1909. At the time of her completion she was the largest Italian passenger ship afloat. The "Mafalda" was known for her luxury and was the preferred mode of travel for such celebrities of the day as Carlos Gardel.
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SS Sirio SS "Sirio" was an Italian merchant steamer that had a shipwreck off the Spanish coast on August 4th 1906, causing the deaths of at least 150 Italian and Spanish emigrants bound for Argentina. The shipwreck gained notoriety because the captain, Giuseppe Piccone, abandoned ship at the first opportunity. The wreck had a profound effect on communities in northern Italy and was remembered in popular songs of the era.
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RMS Atlantic RMS "Atlantic" was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line that operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she ran onto rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 people. It remained the deadliest civilian maritime disaster in the North Atlantic Ocean until the sinking of  on 2 July 1898 and the greatest disaster for the White Star Line prior to the loss of "Titanic" in April 1912.
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1936 KLM Croydon accident The 1936 KLM Croydon accident was the crash of a KLM airliner on 9 December 1936, shortly after taking off from the Croydon Air Port (as it was known at the time) on a scheduled flight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The aircraft was destroyed and 15 of the 17 passengers and crew on board died as a result of the accident.
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Jun'yō Maru Jun'yō Maru (順陽丸 ) was a Japanese cargo ship (one of the "hell ships") that was attacked and sunk in 1944 by the British submarine  , resulting in the loss of over 5,000 lives.
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PS America PS "America" was a paddle wheel steamship of the White Star Line, built in 1891. Together, with her sister ship  , she tendered the various White Star Liners which stopped to embark passengers at Queenstown, Ireland (now Cobh). She is best known for her assistance of the  , who was making her final call of port at Queenstown on her maiden voyage. "America" embarked 123 passengers onto "Titanic" (three First-Class, seven Second-Class and one hundred-thirteen Third-Class). The "Titanic" sank on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, with three-fourths of her maiden voyage completed.
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SS Sant Anna SS "Sant′ Anna" was an Transatlantic ocean liner converted into a troopship in 1915, torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea on 11 May 1918 with 605 casualties.
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RMS Titanic in popular culture The RMS Titanic has subsequently played a prominent role in popular culture since her sinking in 1912, with the loss of over 1,500 of the 2,200 lives on board. The disaster and the "Titanic" herself have been objects of public fascination for many years. They have inspired numerous books, plays, films, songs, poems, and works of art. "Titanic"'s story has been interpreted in many overlapping ways, including as a symbol of technological hubris, as basis for fail-safe improvements, as a classic disaster tale, as an indictment of the class divisions of the time, and as romantic tragedies with personal heroism. It has inspired many moral, social and political metaphors and is regularly invoked as a cautionary tale of the limitations of modernity and ambition.
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SS Mendi SS Mendi was a British  GRT passenger steamship that was built in 1905 and, as a troopship, sank after collision with great loss of life in 1917.
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Air France Flight 152 Air France Flight 152 (AF152) was a scheduled international passenger flight which made an emergency water landing in the Mediterranean Sea, off Fethiye, South-Western Turkey on 3 August 1953. The aircraft sank over an hour after ditching. Four passengers died, out of 8 crew and 34 passengers.
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SS Inkosi (1902) SS "Inkosi" was a 3661-ton British steamship built in 1902. She was torpedoed and sunk during the First World War by the German U-boat SM "U-96" on 28 March 1918, while on passage from Liverpool for Lamlash and Pernambuco with a general cargo and coal. Three crew were lost with the vessel.
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SS Santa Elisa SS "Santa Elisa" was a refrigerated cargo ship built for the United States Maritime Commission by Federal Shipbuilding of Kearny, New Jersey in 1941. Operated by the Grace Line, "Santa Elisa" was a member of Convoy WS 21S from Newport, England, for Malta as a part of Operation Pedestal. After she straggled from the convoy, she was attacked and torpedoed by the Italian motor boats MAS 557 and 564 25 nmi southeast of Cape Bon, Tunisia on the night of 12/13 August 1942. MAS 557 strafed the vessel with her .51 Breda machine gun, killing four British army gunners, while the second motorboat launched a 450 mm torpedo that struck "Santa Elisa" on the starboard side near the No. 1 cargo hatch at about 05:17. The ship's cargo of aviation gasoline burst into flames. "Santa Elisa" eventually sank at approximately 07:17 on 13 August near position , and 28 survivors, including Francis A. Dales who was awarded the Merchant Marine Distinguished Service Medal for his involvement in the convoy, were rescued by HMS Penn and landed at Malta.
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MV Mario Roselli Mario Roselli was an Italian cargo ship, confiscated by Nazi Germany, which was sunk by Allied aircraft on 11 October 1943 in Corfu Bay, killing some 1,302 Italian POW's.
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Cataraqui (ship) Cataraqui (also called Cataraque) was a British barque which sank off the south-west coast of King Island in Bass Strait on 4 August 1845. The sinking was Australia's worst ever maritime civil disaster incident, claiming the lives of 400 people.
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1958 Rio de Janeiro train crash The 1958 Rio de Janeiro train crash, occurred on the afternoon of May 8, 1958, in Mangueira, a suburb two miles west of Rio de Janeiro city centre in Brazil when two electric trains collided head on, killing 128 people and injuring more than 300. It is the most serious rail accident in the history of the city.
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Texas City disaster The Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history, and one of the largest non-nuclear explosions. Originating with a mid-morning fire on board the French-registered vessel SS "Grandcamp" (docked in the port), her cargo of approximately 2,200 tons (approximately 2,100 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate detonated, with the initial blast and subsequent chain-reaction of further fires and explosions in other ships and nearby oil-storage facilities. It killed at least 581 people, including all but one member of the Texas City fire department. The disaster triggered the first ever class action lawsuit against the United States government, under the then-recently enacted Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), on behalf of 8,485 victims.