MS Oranje

MS Oranje, later known as Angelina Lauro, was a Dutch passenger liner, a wartime hospital ship and finally a cruise ship that was burnt out and subsequently lost while being towed for scrap. She sank in a storm in the mid-Pacific, on 24 September 1979. The ship underwent 25 years' service as Oranje, and fifteen as Angelina Lauro. She was a cruise ship for the last seven years of her career. Extensive film of a cruise she made in 1954 exists in the London Cinema Museum archive. Collision with Willem Ruys

MS Oranje

MS Oranje, later known as Angelina Lauro, was a Dutch passenger liner, a wartime hospital ship and finally a cruise ship that was burnt out and subsequently lost while being towed for scrap. She sank in a storm in the mid-Pacific, on 24 September 1979. The ship underwent 25 years' service as Oranje, and fifteen as Angelina Lauro. She was a cruise ship for the last seven years of her career. Extensive film of a cruise she made in 1954 exists in the London Cinema Museum archive. Collision with Willem Ruys