Sinking of SS Andrea DoriaPhotographer: Harry A. Trask
Year: 1957 Pulitzer
The SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner in the Italian fleet, which was home ported in Genoa. The ship is most famous for its sinking in 1956. On July25, 1956 the cruiser was approaching the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts bound for New York City when it collided with the eastward-bound MS Stockholm of the Swedish American Line. The accident would become one of history's most infamous maritime disasters. The shortage of lifeboats might have resulted in significant loss of life, but improvements in communications and rapid responses by other ships averted a disaster similar in scale to the Titanic.
In all, 1660 passengers and crew were rescued and survived, while 46 people died as a consequence of the collision. The evacuated luxury liner capsized and sank the following morning. In 1957, Harry A. Trask won the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic photographic sequence of the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria. The pictures were taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet, nine minutes before the ship sank.
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