What happened after the Andrea Doria was struck by the SS Stockholm?
After being struck in the side, the list of the mortally wounded ship left half of Andrea Doria’s lifeboats unusable, which might have resulted in significant loss of life, but improvements in communications and rapid responses by other ships averted a disaster similar in scale to the Titanic disaster of 1912. On the Andrea Doria 1660 people were rescued and 46 people died. The evacuated luxury liner capsized and sank the following morning.
