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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.
In 2008, she was renamed Athena II, returning to Athena in 2009. [6] Her port of registry was Hósvík and Athena was allocated the MMSI number 231411000. [4] On 27 October 2010, Athena was reported to be on fire in the Atlantic Ocean 200 nautical miles (370 km) south west of the Isles of Scilly.
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.
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan in Glasgow built Athenia, launching her on 28 January 1922 and completing her in 1923.She measured 13,465 gross register tons (GRT) and 8,118 net register tons (NRT), was 526.3 ft (160.4 m) long between perpendiculars by 66.4 ft (20.2 m) beam and had a depth of 38.1 ft (11.6 m).
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
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Grandcamp – On 16 April, the French-registered Liberty ship caught fire and exploded dockside while being loaded with ammonium nitrate at Texas City, Texas. In what came to be called the Texas City Disaster an estimated 581 people, including all of the ship's crew and 28 firefighters, were killed and about 5,000 injured. 581 1981 Indonesia
A fire broke out on Royal Caribbean’s “Icon of the Seas,” billed as the world’s largest cruise ship, sails from the Port of Miami on its maiden cruise on January 27 (AFP via Getty Images)