ANDREA DORIA passenger ship 1952

[aukepalmhof]

Built as a passenger vessel under yard No 918 by S.A. Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente, Italy for Italia Società per Azioni di Navigazioni, Genoa.
16 June 1951 launched as the ANDREA DORIA.
Tonnage 29,083 grt, 15,788 net, 9,567 dwt., dim. 213.36 x 27.49 x 9.24m.
Powered by six steam turbines, manufactured by S.A. Ansaldo geared to twin shafts, 35,000 hp, speed 23 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 218 first class, 320 cabin and 703 tourist class.
09 December 1952 completed.


She was special built for the liner service between Italy and New York, and fitted out with the most modern navigation aids and lifesaving equipment.
14 January 1953 left for her maiden voyage from Genoa and via Cannes, Naples headed for New York.

On a voyage from the Mediterranean to New York under command of Capt. P. Calamai with on board 1128 passengers.
25 July 1956 just before midnight during calm weather and dense fog she came in collision with the Swedish liner STOCKHOLM in a position about 45 miles south east of Nantucket Island near New York.
She was inward bound for New York, while the STOCKHOLM was outward bound for Gothenburg.
Only one of ANDREA DORIA’s watertight compartments was flooded but contrary to the predictions of her designers she at once took a heavy list, which thereafter slowly increased till some open portholes got underwater, and more water was pouring in.

She sank around 10.00 a.m. on 26 July. While the heavy list made it almost impossible to launch her lifeboats, most of the passengers and crew were rescued.

The STOCKHOLM while herself badly damaged took on board 533 persons, before she returned to New York. 47 Persons on board the ANDREA DORIA lost there life.

Malagasy 1998 1350fr sg, scott1385f
San Marino 1998 800lr. sg1664, scott? (the ship was identified by Mr. Peter Crichton as ANDREA DORIA or her sister CRISTOFORO COLOMBO.)
Gambia 2016 D45 sg?, scott?

Source: North Atlantic Seaways by Bonsor. Dictionary of Disasters at Sea during the age of steam by Charles Hocking. http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz
Much more info is given on http://wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Andrea_Doria

[aukepalmhof]

2010 German Post has issued a series of stamps in honor of the famous German musician Udo Lindenberg and his two songs "Andrea Doria" and "Special train to Pankow".
Udo Lindenberg was born in 1946 in Westphalia, Gronau. Lindenberg writes German rock music texts and in 1959 he assembles his first band.
In the first year of his international breakthrough with the single "All clear on the Andrea Doria" Lindenberg creates parallels to life on a sinking luxury liner. The Italian liner Andrea Doria, pride of the Italian cruise fleet, sank on 26 July 1956 after a collision.
In the song "Special train to Pankow", which spontaneously becomes a hit, Lindenberg dreams of an open inter-German border.
Udo Lindenberg's youth slang communicates the feeling of his time, his songs are always provocative, they reflect social and political issues.

source: German Post.

[Mrcarlo]

The stamp in matter is this:

The designer draws it stylized with two funnels, in reality the ANDREA DORIA had only a funnel.


Mrcarlo (Carlo Doria)