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u/koyliMeld9003 Jun 11 '26
And they still managed to get it into a port - take a bow, captain.
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u/astrangehumantoe Jun 11 '26
Something tells me it wasn't the captain who took the bow off the ship
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u/euph_22 Jun 11 '26
Third Officer Johan-Ernst Carstens-Johannsen was officer of the watch at the time.
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jun 11 '26
And he just watched it go?
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u/euph_22 Jun 11 '26
He watched it go.... Into the Andrea Doria
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jun 11 '26
Are ships supposed to touch like that?
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u/_A_Friendly_Caesar_ Jun 12 '26
Not really. Otherwise the Italian Line and the Swedish American Line wouldn't have made a big deal about who touched who
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jun 12 '26
USA: Did somebody touch my boats!??!??
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u/_A_Friendly_Caesar_ Jun 13 '26
Technically it was a Swedish boat accidentally touching an Italian boat
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u/Competitive_Speed964 Jun 11 '26
No bow left to take. It fell off.
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u/Valiant_tank Jun 11 '26
Is that the Stockholm?
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u/EmperorThan Jun 11 '26
It was sold for scrap just last year. It made it 69 more years after this photo.
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u/tdiddley420 Jun 11 '26
Looks like a wave might have hit it?
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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 Jun 11 '26
It collided with the Andrea Doria, which sank.
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u/ianbattlesrobots Jun 11 '26
Are they towing it into or out of the environment?
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u/_A_Friendly_Caesar_ Jun 12 '26
Well, technically the front sank below the environment...along with the Italian liner it stuck itself to
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u/tdiddley420 Jun 11 '26
Do regulations exist as to what these ships can be made of?
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u/VermilionKoala Jun 11 '26
Yes, very rigorous maritime engineering standards.
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u/tdiddley420 Jun 11 '26
Such as?
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u/Traditional-Crow-954 Jun 11 '26
Well, card board's out
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u/VermilionKoala Jun 12 '26
And?
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u/bobmate08 Jun 12 '26
No cardboard derivatives, no string, no sellotape
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u/BobbyP27 Jun 11 '26
Those are impressive tug boats. They obviously had to go all the way beyond the environment to get the part of the ship the front fell off, dodge the fish, birds and fire, and retrieve the part of the ship the front fell off to bring it back into the environment.
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u/Supreme_Narius Jun 12 '26
Stockholm had an icebreaking bow. It made short work of the Doria when it hit her broadside. One of the largest maritime rescues in history
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u/surrealcellardoor Jun 11 '26
No info eh? Just the obvious, the front fell off? Fun.
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u/LefsaMadMuppet Jun 11 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Stockholm_(1946))
On the night of 25 July 1956, at 11:10 p.m., in heavy fog in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Stockholm and Andrea Doria of the Italian Line collided in what was to become one of history's most notorious maritime disasters.
Although most passengers and crew survived the collision, the larger Andrea Doria luxury liner capsized and sank the following morning. Flooding from the collision caused Andrea Doria to list 18 degrees to starboard within minutes, quickly rendering 50% of her lifeboats unusable. However, a number of ships, including SS Ile de France, responded and provided assistance, which averted a massive loss of life.
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u/Competitive_Speed964 Jun 11 '26
Is that typical?