In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, a fire started in a closet aboard the cruise ship Morro Castle, which was passing along the New Jersey coast after a trip to Havana, Cuba.

The passenger ship, "Baltic," was notified and arrived shortly thereafter. September 8 - New York & Cuba Mail Steamship Company's "Morro Castle," sailing from Havana to New York, is engulfed with ...