It’s not often an infamous maritime catastrophe and a rare automotive show car share a headline, but it happened 64 years ago this July 25, when two ocean liners, the 697-foot Italian steamship SS Andrea Doria, and the 534-foot Swedish motor ship MS Stockholm improbably collided off the coast of Nantucket just after 11:10 p.m. in heavy fog.
The size of ocean-going ships at the time hardly compares to the behemoth floating cities of today’s cruise industry, but both were common and capable vessels of their day.
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