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  • Search continues for missing after Egypt ferry horror, survivors tell of fire

    02/03/2006 9:56:27 PM PST · by HAL9000 · 8 replies · 696+ views
    Agence France Presse | February 4, 2006
    Rescue teams scoured the Red Sea for survivors Saturday after an Egyptian ferry sank, leaving more than 1,000 people dead or missing in one of the worst maritime tragedies in years, as the rescued spoke of a fire on board the ill-equipped vessel. "Why didn't the crew get it under control?" asked one former passenger hospitalized at this Red Sea port, after survivors said the blaze had raged for at least three hours before the ship went down. The owners of the ship said between 300 and 400 of the more than 1,400 people on board had been rescued...
  • Red Sea Cruise ship disappears from radar

    02/03/2006 2:14:34 AM PST · by hershey · 49 replies · 2,380+ views
    just off the wires | 2/3/06 | Channel 4 news morning news--Boston, CBS
    The early morning news anchor on CBS in Boston read a breaking news report, just off the wires, that a Red Sea cruise ship with 1300 people had vanished off radar....
  • Maritime mystery's new chapter

    08/29/2002 8:54:44 AM PDT · by robowombat · 6 replies · 64+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | 8/29/2002 | Beth Daley
    <p>It has been called ''New England's Titanic.'' The luxury steamship Portland sank in Massachusetts Bay in 1898, killing all aboard - 192 people, by some estimates - and launching a century-long search for the vessel's remains.</p> <p>Today, researchers are expected to announce they have found the Portland lying beneath 460 feet of water between Cape Cod and Cape Ann.</p>