L’Italia l’aveva costruita per stupire il mondo. Poi affondò l’Andrea Doria

L’Italia che Costruiva

L’Italia che Costruiva

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The sinking of the Andrea Doria: the pride of postwar Italy, a collision in the fog, and nearly eleven hours to save those still on board. The story of the Italian ocean liner that sank in 1956 after colliding with the Stockholm off Nantucket.

The two ships were tracking each other on radar. Yet they ended up colliding. How was this possible? Why did half of the Andrea Doria's lifeboats become unusable? And how did the rescuers manage to save 1,660 people?

From the Ansaldo shipyards in Genoa to the final crossing to New York, we retrace the ship's construction, the Italian design of its saloons, and the stories of the emigrants heading to America. Then we delve into the decisive hours: the maneuvers of the two bridges, the decisions of Captain Piero Calamai, and the rescue of the Île de France, the Stockholm itself, and the other ships that intervened.

A story of Italian industry, human error, and extraordinary rescues, followed by a dispute settled with a pre-trial settlement, without a court determining liability.

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