Today in History for July 25: In 325, the Council of Nicea closed. Regarded as the first ecumenical council, its 300 attending bishops drafted the Nicene Creed and fixed the formula for Easter Sunday.

The Stockholm was badly damaged, but the Andrea Doria sank, and more than 50 aboard died. In the 1960s, the vessel became an East German holiday ship until 1985, when she was reconstructed in ...

The cruise ship Astoria, one of the oldest passenger ships in the world, will soon be scrapped and recycled in the port of Ghent. The ship became world famous after a fatal collision in 1956.

The collision at sea between Andrea Doria and Stockholm directly involved some 2,000 people, but the details of how and why it happened were secrets known only to a handful of officers aboard both ...

By 11 p.m. Stockholm, lie de France and Andrea Doria were all churning through the busy, often angry water south of Nantucket, known as “the Times Square of the North Atlantic.” ...

The Andrea Doria disappeared from sight at 10:09 on the morning of July 26, 1956, two miles southeast of where she and the Stockholm had collided exactly 11 hours earlier.” ...

A New Jersey man who survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956 donated his life jacket to the New Jersey Maritime Museum on Long Beach Island.

Alfonso Caliendo never lost track of the life jacket that helped save his life 67 years ago when he leaped into the water to escape one of the world’s most famous Atlantic Ocean shipwrecks.

Divers explore sunken ship off Nantucket coast The SS Andrea Doria sank in 1956 after colliding with the MS Stockholm ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. —The Noble Maritime Collection presented Exploring the Andrea Doria, a free lecture by researcher and diver John Moyer at the museum on Sunday, April 2.

On July 25, 1956, the Swedish liner MS Stockholm collided with the Andrea Doria, which was en route to New York. The subsequent rescue was one of the most dramatic and well-documented in sea history.