First week of your contract is full with trainings about safety, environmental policy, cultural diversity etc. Among this trainings is a security training about terrorist treats and inevitable story of MS Achille Lauro. This is the ship that changed security procedures in cruise industry. As you already know the story we will focus on the history of this ship.

1938:

Ordered in 1938, her hull was set in 1939 at Vlissingen, Netherlands, for Rotterdamsche Lloyd. Construction was delayed by World War II and the ship was not launched until July 1946. Was completed in late 1947 named Willem Ruys  and made its maiden voyage December 2, 1947 

1964:

In 1964, the ship was sold and renamed Achille Lauro (named after the former mayor of Naples, Achille Lauro). Extensively rebuilt and modernized by Cantieri di Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea the ship was back in service in 1966. In April 1975, while Achille Lauro was in the Dardanelles he collided with a livestock transport ship, which sank. In 1982 Achille Lauro went to the Lauro Line today known as MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company.

1965:

Four times the ship was ravaged by fire, the last of which broke out Nov. 30, 1994 caused it to sink on December 2, three days later. The first fire broke out on board in 1965, other incidents uncured in 1972, 1981 and then 1994.

1985:

On October 7, 1985, as the ship sailed in the Mediterranean off the Egyptian coast, was hijacked by a commandos of the Palestine Liberation Front. On board were 201 passengers and 344 crewmen. One passanger was shot dead.

1994:

On 30 November 1994, while the ship  was at sea off the coast of Somalia, a fire broke and the ship sank. The fire caused 2 deaths one of them crushed by a lifeboat.