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By Alvin Moscow

In 1956, luxurious liners—the MS Stockholm and the SS Andrea Doria—equipped with each identified safeguard gadget, collided off new york. The Stockholm used to be capable of limp again to big apple urban, however the appealing Andrea Doria, delight of the Italian Line, slipped slowly into the depths of the North Atlantic almost immediately after. part a century later, the secret in their convergence maintains to fascinate readers and specialists alike, down to the tales of hidden treasures worthy thousands watching for discovery deep within the Doria’s decaying hull.
In Collision path, writer Alvin Moscow vividly re-creates the horror and importance of the disaster that struck the passengers and crews of either ships with such compelling realism that the reader relives the phobia and confusion. The collision itself nonetheless baffles maritime specialists and laymen alike through its enormity and utter improbability: that the 2 huge, immense ships, crusing in contrary instructions on a relaxed sea, may converge even as and a similar position. Moscow attended the four-month courtroom hearings that sought to discover the reasons of the catastrophe, and reviewed six thousand pages of testimony and indicates, interviewing all of the principals to find what really occurred that fateful evening. Collision direction is an engrossing story of human fallibility, and a must-read for any maritime historical past buff.

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On Friday, July 20 and setting out for the North Atlantic, Captain Calamai had noted in his own logbook: We have a total of 1,134 passengers (190 first class, 267 cabin class and 677 tourist class), 401 tons of freight, 9 autos, 522 pieces of baggage and 1,754 bags of mail. The nine-day voyage had been routine, nothing marking it in any way different from any of the previous fifty trips to New York. For the 1,134 passengers, the sea voyage had been a time to unwind, to settle into the luxury of being served and entertained.

The simple explanation for Captain Calamai’s “sixth sense” probably was that he was a worrier. He never was away from the bridge of his ship for long. Of the multiple duties incumbent upon the master of a ship, Captain Calamai favored those of chief navigator. The aloneness forced upon a man by the sea suited the Italian captain. A shy, introverted person, he least enjoyed the social obligations of a captain of a luxury liner. Because he disliked cocktails, liquor and small talk, he discharged his social obligations to celebrities and important passengers aboard by showing them the bridge of his beautiful ship during the morning hours.

Her twin turbine engines were on FULL SPEED AHEAD, pounding out 35,000 horsepower. The turbines fed by high-compression steam turned the ship’s two giant propellers, each 16 feet in diameter, 134 revolutions per minute. It was a tremendous amount of power and every bit of it was needed to push this colossal ship, 697 feet long and 11 decks high, through the ocean at her full cruising speed of 23 knots. It was necessary to maintain that speed constantly from Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea to the Ambrose Lightship at the entrance to New York Harbor in order to bring the ship to port on schedule.

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