Transportation Disasters in 1984 - Aviation Accidents and Incidents in 1984, Maritime Incidents in 1984, Railway Accidents in 1984 (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Aviation Accidents and Incidents in 1984, Maritime Incidents in 1984, Railway Accidents in 1984, Oxford Circus Fire, Ms Kungsholm, Summit Tunnel Fire, Aeroflot Flight 3352, Rail Accidents at Morpeth, Uss Bergall, Polmont Rail Accident, Bark Marques, Eccles Rail Crash, Hms Postillion, Cameroon Airlines Flight 786, Eldia, Zingara, Wembley Central Rail Crash, Soviet Submarine K-131, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 501, 1984 Balkan Bulgarian Tupolev Tu-134 Crash, Mercedes, List of Shipwrecks in 1984, Train 904 Bombing. Excerpt: MS Kungsholm was a combined ocean liner / cruise ship built in 1953 by the De Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen, The Netherlands for the Swedish American Line. Between 1965 and 1981 she sailed for the North German Lloyd and their successor Hapag-Lloyd as MS Europa. From 1981 until 1984 she sailed for Costa Cruises as MS Columbus C. She sank in the port of Cadiz, Spain after ramming a breakwater on 29 July 1984. Her wreckage was subsequently raised and scrapped the following year in Barcelona. After the end of World War II the Swedish American Line, the company that had been pioneers of cruising during the 1920s, was left in a difficult situation. MS Stockholm, the large newbuild that had been planned during the late 1930s, never entered service for them because of the war, with the remaining fleet consisting of ageing ships. The company took delivery of their first post-war ship, the fourth MS Stockholm, in 1948. She was a small cargo/passenger liner far removed from the luxury of her pre-war predecessors. In 1948, during the same year that the Stockholm was delivered, SAL had already begun market research on both sides of the Atlantic, with the propect of building a new ship in mind. Based on the results of the research, ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=16377593