Image Credit: The impact of a collision killed 46 passengers of the Andrea Doria in their cabins, historians say. The ship sank 11 hours later, after the rest of the passengers were rescued. Photo courtesy of Atlantic Wreck Salvage
By Mark Price
A key artifact has been recovered by divers exploring a fissure in one of the most notorious shipwrecks off the East Coast of the United States.
The SS Andrea Doria was loaded with 1,706 people when a Swedish ocean liner crashed into her side in 1956 off Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, sending the ship on a slow descent to the Atlantic Ocean seafloor.
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article311483568.html
