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...deeply moving Andrea Doria story recalls an almost identical tragedy that occurred on Jan. 23, 1909, when the outbound steamship Republic was rammed in a heavy fog off Nantucket by the inbound Italian immigrant ship Florida. Before the Republic sank, her passengers were transferred to the badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when...
TIME'S Aug. 6 story on the Andrea Doria disaster left me transfixed. The facts were the same as those handled by other publica tions, but the story emerged alive and tender, in a way that tore right into...
Pinning blame for the collision squarely on sunken Andrea Doria, Stockholm charged that the Manhattan-bound Italian liner was not properly manned or equipped, failed to keep a proper lookout, was proceeding at excessive speed, had faulty radar protection, failed to sound required signals, and "suddenly and unexpectedly and without warning veered across the path of Stockholm and into collision with Stockholm...
...Italian Case. The Italian Line denied that the moon was visible or the range of visibility was two miles. The night was "dark and foggy," and Andrea Doria, when her radar picked up Stockholm, was sounding regulation fog signals. Andrea Doria's radar indicated that Stockholm would pass clear to starboard; Andrea Doria altered to port for greater clearance. "Thereafter, Stockholm's lights loomed out of the fog off Andrea Doria's starboard bow, whereupon her (Andrea Doria's) rudder was put hard left, and she sounded two short blasts of her whistle, indicating...
Blaming Stockholm for the crash, the Italian Line charged that the Swedish ship failed to keep a good lookout or make effective use of her radar, was proceeding at immoderate speed through the fog, failed to stop engines after hearing Andrea Doria's fog signal forward of her beam, altered course to starboard without ascertaining the course and position of Andrea Doria, failed to sound proper whistle signals, failed to stop and reverse engines when the danger of collision became apparent, and was proceeding eastward in the path of westbound vessels...