On the night of July 25, 1956, the Italian luxury liner “Andrea Doria” was struck by the Swedish liner “Stockholm” about 40 miles off Nantucket, and sank some 11 hours later.
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It wasn’t on the scale of the Titanic, but 46 people died.
Among the surviving passengers aboard the Andrea Doria that night was nine-year-old Pierette Domenica Simpson, looking forward to arriving in America with her grandparents from their native Italy.
In 2006 she wrote a book about her shipwreck experience. That’s when I met her.