stockholm (ship)

Well, the Stockholm is still carrying passengers. After many refits and numerous identities, she has become the MV Athena, of Lisbon-based Classic International Cruises. The specification of the ship, with detailed information on it's accommodations and type of passengers it carries...

It is the 48th anniversary of the Andrea Doria sinking after colliding with the Stockholm, some fifty miles off the coast of Nantucket shortly after 11 pm on the night of July 25, 1956. The Stockholm cut through the Andrea Doria like a knife, but remarkably she stayed afloat for ten hours...

There seems to have been alot of debate about this tunnel by experts on the matter, whether or not it was sealed w/ a watertight door, and whether or not it was the main source of flooding. i simply thought I would establish this thread so anyone interested can express their thoughts and...

there have been numerous arguments about whether or not stockholm was in fog in the moments leading up to the collision w/ the Andrea Doria. some claim the ship was in fog simply because the looks out on stockholm could only see a mile or a head of themselves, when normal range was 15 - 20...

I am presently resding the book, "Desperate Hours: the Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria". On pages 80-81, it mentions that a Finnish woman had traveled to Finland on the Stockholm on its previous voyage before its collision with the Andrea Doria. The woman had told the waiter in the dining room...

With the Andrea Doria anniversary coming up, I figured I'd post the question "whatever became of the Stockholm?" I know that at late as 1996 she had been rebuilt as an Italian cruise ship and renamed the Italia Prima, but have not been able to find anything more recent concerning her.