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Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
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Achille Lauro hijacking
1985 hijacking of an Italian cruise ship by the PLF
The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985, when the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) off the coast of Egypt, as she was sailing from Alexandria to Ashdod, Israel. A 69-year-old…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
MS Achille Lauro
Cruise ship launched in 1946
MS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples, Italy. It was built between 1939 and 1947 as the ocean liner Willem Ruys for Royal Rotterdam Lloyd. In 1965 Achille Lauro bought the ship, had it converted into a cruise ship, and renamed it after himself. In 1985 it was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)