People Who Survived What Should Have Been Instant Death

The Andrea Doira

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In 1956, the SS Andrea Doria was known as the fastest and safest ship in all of Italy. At least it was until a passenger ship, the SS Stockholm, crashed into it, killing more than 50 people. Linda Morgan, then 14-years old, never made it to a lifeboat and was presumed dead.

By chance, her father was an ABC broadcaster, reporting live on the sinking. Despite the rumored death of his daughter, he bravely stayed on the air, not even telling listeners about his own daughter who was on the ship. Linda wasn’t dead, as she was lifted from her bed onto the Stockholm’s crushed bow, landing on the other ship.