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Andrea Doria - Part 4: A race to save lives as systems strain and the ship slips away
Floodlights, lifeboats, and shouted instructions cut through the fog. The immediate aftermath of the Andrea Doria collision was not orderly—it was a desperate scramble in the dark. On the night of July twenty-fifth into the early hours of July twenty-sixth, nineteen fifty-six, the ship’s crew and the vessels racing to her side tried to build a corridor of survival across a shifting, unstable sea. There was no script for this.
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