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Flandre, later called Carla C, Carla Costa, and Pallas Athena, was an ocean liner and cruise ship that took passengers on transatlantic voyages and on Caribbean and Mediterranean cruises from 1952 to 1994. She was operated by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT), Costa Cruises, and the Epirotiki Line.
The destruction of Athens, took place between 480 and 479 BCE, when Athens was captured and subsequently destroyed by the Achaemenid Empire.A prominent Greek city-state, it was attacked by the Persians in a two-phase offensive, amidst which the Persian king Xerxes the Great had issued an order calling for it to be torched.
Then the crew started removing luggage and cargo from the hold to gain access to the fire. By 17:00 hrs on 18 September the fire seemed to be under control. [17] Athinai survivors, possibly aboard one of the ships that rescued them. By 08:00 hrs on 19 September the fire had restarted in Number 2 hold and spread to Number 1 hold. [18]
The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece.The battle took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off the coast of Euboea and was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and others, and the Persian Empire of ...
2023 – Port Newark disaster, cargo ship catches fire in Newark, New Jersey — 2 firefighters killed. 2023 – MV Fremantle Highway caught fire off the coast of the Dutch island of Ameland around 11.45 pm on 25 July 2023 while en route from Bremerhaven, Germany, due to arrive in Egypt's Port Said on 2 August 2023.
Cruise vessel destroyed by fire will get a new life as an artificial reef in Florida July 29, 2024 at 5:19 PM U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Edward Wargo
The historic Zane Grey Estate, acclaimed as Altadena’s first fireproof home, has tragically been destroyed by the Eaton Fire. The Mediterranean Revival-style house was built in 1907 by Chicago ...
Athena was a 7,805 GT factory ship which was built in 1992. In October 2010, she caught fire off the Isles of Scilly.In May 2011 she caught fire while lying at the harbour of Runavík in Skálafjørður, Faroe Islands.