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Coordinates: 40.2281°N 73.9942°W. SS Morro Castle was an American ocean liner that caught fire and ran aground on the morning of September 8, 1934, en route from Havana, Cuba, to New York, New York, United States, with the loss of 137 passengers and crew.
19 lis 2021 · SS Morro Castle burnt and shipwrecked off the coast of New Jersey, 1934. By mid-morning, the ship was totally abandoned and its burning hull drifted ashore, coming to a stop in shallow water off Asbury Park, New Jersey.
In the early morning hours of Saturday, September 8th, 1934, en route from Havana to New York, the ship caught fire on the coast of the New Jersey shore; a total of 137 passengers and crew members were killed in the fire.
9 sie 2013 · Discover SS Morro Castle Monument in Asbury Park, New Jersey: Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.
23 wrz 2023 · On September 8, 1934, the luxury passenger liner SS Morro Castle caught fire and burned during a raging storm off the coast of New Jersey, killing 137 passengers and crew members.
8 wrz 2020 · On 8 September 1934, Ward Line’s Morro Castle caught fire on a stormy night off the New Jersey coast as she was returning to New York from Havana. The blaze claimed the lives of 137 of 549 passengers and crewmembers.
Nothing could have been more terrifying than being a passenger or crew member aboard the “Morro Castle” in the early morning hours of September 7, 1934 when fire erupted in two places on the 508’ long, 11,250 gross tons of elegant ship.
