Review: Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History by Pierette Domenica Simpson

Title: Alive on the Andrea Doria!: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History
Author: Pierette Domenica Simpson
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 (first published June 2006)
Edition: ebook (316 pages)
Genres:

• Nonfiction
• American History
• Maritime History

My Rating: 5 of 5 stars

Late on the evening of July 25, 1956, the MS Stockholm rammed into the SS Andrea Doria, not far off the shores of the island of Nantucket. The ramming ultimately resulted in the capsizing of the SS Andrea Doria, hours later, and prompted the greatest sea rescue in history. The author was a young girl, traveling to America with her grandparents, on the Andrea Doria. She and her grandparents survived. She tells her own story, as well as the stories of other survivors, along with the various inquiries that came after.

I found this book fascinating in content and vivid detail. As with the sinking of the Titanic, there was heroism and also plenty of blame to go around. It has taken years and the aid of computers to finally sort out who was to blame and exactly what happened. An excellent read!