On this day, the luxury transatlantic Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria was struck in thick fog by the Swedish passenger liner Stockholm as she approached the coast of Nantucket in the USA. Struck on her starboard side, the top-heavy Andrea Doria immediately started to list severely and take on water, which left half of her lifeboats unusable. Fortunately, the calm, appropriate behaviour of the crew, together with improvements in communications, and the rapid response of other ships, averted a disaster similar in scale to that of Titanic in 1912. While 1,660 passengers and crew were rescued, 46 people on the ship died as a direct consequence of the collision. The evacuated luxury liner capsized and sank the following morning. The accident remains the worst maritime disaster to occur in United States waters since the capsizing of the Eastland in Chicago in 1915.
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