What caused the eventual sinking of the Italian ship, MS Achille Lauro, hijacked in 1985 by four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)?
A fire in the engine room nine years later, in 1994, when one of the boilers exploded The ship was re-flagged in 1989 and continued in service until 1994 when it sank off the coast of Somalia while en route to South Africa.
The HMHS Britannic, sister ship to the Titanic and heir to the experience gained by that sinking, was completed at the end of 1915 and requisitioned as what before falling foul of a mine and sinking in 1916?
