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Old 7th August 2017, 04:31
Lucy Knight England Lucy Knight is offline
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A lot of you will have heard of the Cruise ship Lakonia disaster Xmas 63 around midnight. It was a fateful cruise and demise of the Lakonia cruise ship. Montcalm and other Merchant vessels went to assist and rescue many from lifeboats and water. Many life boats painted up and couldn't be freed. HMS Centaur and others recovered a lot of bodies from rhe sa and many ending up in Gibraltar. Prior to being sold and renamed Lakonia she was the Johan Von Oldenbarnevelt known as the JVO. In later years the JVO she shipped many Dutch emigrees out to Aussi. She had a very extensive refit before her short life as Cruise Ship Lakonia. Passengers were from UK and Channel Islands for this Xmas cruise promising a Xmas which they wouldn't forget. The survivors didn't forget it. Nor did the rescuers. Some of the rescuers HMS Centaur who were still affected by it pushed for a memorial and service in 2013 in Gibraltar North front cemetery. There is you tube of service.

There are many chapters of book about JVO and the last chapters of book about when she was Lakonia about when she was the Lakonia free to view on the site below.

http://www.ssmaritime.com/jvo1.htm

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