Willem Ruys
1947
(Carlos Marquadt KR-146)
- Type: Passenger
- Displacement: 21,119 tons
- Dimensions: 631 x 82 ft.
- Machinery: Sulzer diesels, twin screws = 22 knots
- Passengers: 900
- Builder: de Schelde Shipyard, Flushing, the Netherlands, 1939-47
- Service: Built for Royal Rotterdam Lloyd (Dutch flag). Rotterdam-East Indies
service. Rotterdam-around-the-world service, 1959-64. Sold to Lauro Line (Italian flag),
1964; rebuilt as Achille Lauro. Italy-Australia service and, later, cruising.
Subject to terrorist attack in 1985, she caught fire 30 Nov 1994 and sank two days later off
Somalia; 2 lost.
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