Collision of the Andrea Doria and The Stockholm

Send us Fan Mail A luxury Italian ocean liner glides toward New York with art on the walls, pools on deck, and new radar that’s supposed to make fog irrelevant. Then, off Nantucket, the SS Andrea Doria and the MS Stockholm do the unthinkable: they read each other on radar, make opposite assumptions about how to pass, and commit to turns that line them up perfectly for impact. The collision becomes one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in American waters, and it’s a brutal reminder...