1998 Cruise Ship Fire

But the incident occurred near the port.

1998 cruise ship fire. A fire broke out on the car deck of the Norman Atlantic while the ferry was traveling from the Greek port of Patras to Ancona in Italy. Edinburgh Castle - fire in main galley of vessel on 21 August 1998. The ship was built in 1998 and refurbished this year.

The Carnival Ecstasy after a 1998 fire. A fire started in the main laundry room and spread through the ventilation system to the aft mooring deck where mooring lines ignited. In mid-February an engine room fire onboard the Carnival Cruises ship Triumph left more than 4000 passengers stranded in the Gulf of Mexico with.

Every passenger is a potential ignition source and the hotel services have an inherent risk. The MSC has agreed that future large passenger ships should be designed for improved survivability based on the time-honoured principle that a ship is its own best lifeboat. Fire also represents a particular vulnerability for large cruise ships.

Fire On the afternoon of July 20 1998 Ecstasy departed the Port of Miami Florida en route to Key West Florida with 2565 passengers and 916 crew members aboard. An engine fire broke out today on the Scandinavian Star leaving the cruise ship adrift for hours in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 700 people aboard the authorities said. EDT 1915 GMT MIAMI CNN -- Welders working in the laundry room of a cruise ship that caught.

On 21 August 1998 cruise ship Edinburgh Castle was west of Cape Carvoeir Portugal. About 60 people were reported injured most for smoke inhalation. The fire on the second deck quickly spread Monday to two decks above and the outside mooring area where nylon rope fed the flames president Bob Dickinson said at a news.

A crew member and two contractors died when a fire broke out on board a luxury cruise ship docked at the eastern Caribbean island of St. 10 people have been confirmed dead 98 are still unaccounted for after the disaster. The MSC Lirica Cruise Ship is on fire and burning in the port of Corfu Greece.