From its fatal collision with the Andrea Doria to entertaining East German Communist Party leaders, the MV Astoria cruise ship has a wild backstory.

Forty-six were aboard the Andrea Doria, a ship that, like the Titanic before it, was thought to be "unsinkable." For Stevens, the days before July 25 were spent lounging in his stateroom, ...

It was on the night of July 25, 1956, that the Andrea Doria collided with another ship and sank 45 miles off Nantucket. There were 1,706 people aboard the Andrea Doria on that fateful night.

On its final voyage, the ship was passing through dense fog south of Nantucket on its way to New York. The Swedish ship Stockholm was headed east from New York. Navigational errors sent the ships on a ...

The Andrea Doria, once the pride of the postwar Italian merchant marine, lies in the mud on its starboard side, 250 feet down in dark and cold Atlantic waters 50 miles south of Nantucket. The ...

BOSTON – The wreck of the Italian ocean liner the Andrea Doria off Nantucket may be more badly deteriorated than previous sonar images suggest, with its bow nearly broken off, a team of undersea ...

A New Jersey man who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956 donated his life jacket to the New ... di Navigazione,” the name of the passenger ship line that owned the Andrea Doria. 3.

On July 25, 1956, the liner Andrea Doria slipped beneath the ocean to its final resting place, taking 51 lives with it. The ship still hasn’t stopped taking lives. Kevin McMurray’s &#82… ...

For 66 years no one knew what became of the nose of the MS Stockholm, the transatlantic liner that broadsided the Andrea Doria in 1956. Now, we know.

Because the Stockholm was built as an ice-cutting ship, it sliced nearly all the way through the Andrea Doria. The wreck killed 46 people instantly on the Doria and five crew members on the Stockholm.

From its fatal collision with the Andrea Doria to entertaining East German Communist Party leaders, the MV Astoria cruise ship has a wild backstory. Click here for important updates to our privacy ...