MS Achille Lauro

The MS Achille Lauro was an Italian cruise ship registered in Naples and built between 1939 and 1947 in the Netherlands under the name of Willem Ruys. It burned in the Indian Ocean off Somalia in 1994.

She was hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front, where Jewish American Leon Klinghoffer was shot dead and thrown overboard from this cruise ship in 1985.

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 CNN Interactive: Video Almanac of 1985

Category:Cruise ships
Category:1946 establishments in the Netherlands
Category:1994 disestablishments in Europe
Category:Maritime disasters