The entertainer who poured pool water onto an oil fire sank the ship
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The entertainer who poured pool water onto an oil fire sank the ship
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The smell of burning oil reached passengers long before anyone realized their ship was dying, somewhere below the waterline in a compartment no one was watching that hour. When hoses failed, the crew turned to the swimming pool, forming a bucket brigade to fight the flames by hand — and one man aboard, a survivor of another famous sinking, understood exactly what that water would do to burning oil. Why did they keep passing the buckets anyway?
In this episode, we trace the Achille Lauro from her interrupted 1939 construction through five decades of collisions, explosions, hijacking, and fire to the night an engine-room blaze forced nine hundred and seventy-nine people into a full-scale evacuation, asking how a ship with that much history left almost no margin when the fire finally came.
Person: Moss Hills
Location: Indian Ocean off Somalia
Date: 30 November – 2 December 1994
Case: engine-room fire aboard the Achille Lauro
Status: ship sank; wreck never located, no one charged
- The ship was laid down in 1939 at the Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde yard in Vlissingen and launched in July 1946 as the Willem Ruys.
- She measured 192 metres long, 25 metres in beam, and 21,119 gross register tons, with capacity for 900 passengers on her maiden run.
- The Willem Ruys collided with the Oranje on 6 January 1953 and sank the coastal tanker Cornelis B on 26 June 1953.
- Renamed Achille Lauro in 1965, she suffered an onboard explosion that year, plus further fires in 1972 and 1981, and sank the cargo ship Youseff in a 1975 collision.
- On 30 November 1994, a crankcase explosion in the engine room ignited an oil fire; the crew and passengers formed a bucket brigade using swimming-pool water before the ship was aband
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