SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as Puerto Rico, the vessel was renamed Northern Lights in 1991 and, finally, El Faro in 2006.

2015年10月6日 · The doomed El Faro cargo ship which the U.S. Coast Guard says was lost at sea during Hurricane Joaquin, was carrying 33 people on board -- 28 were American. The search continues as the...

Hurricane Joaquin (/ hw ɑː ˈ k iː n / hwah-KEEN; Spanish: Huracán Joaquín [uɾaˈkaŋ xoaˈkin]) [1] was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated several districts of The Bahamas and caused damage in the Turks and Caicos Islands, parts of the Greater Antilles, and Bermuda. It was also the strongest Atlantic hurricane of non-tropical ...

2018年4月4日 · El Faro means “the lighthouse” in Spanish. The hurricane, named Joaquin, was one of the heaviest ever to hit the Bahamas. It overwhelmed and sank the ship. Davidson and the 32 others aboard...

The SS El Faro was a U.S.-flagged cargo vessel that tragically sank on October 1, 2015, in the midst of Hurricane Joaquin. All 33 of the crew members on board died as a result of the disaster. It is credited as being the deadliest American maritime accident in over 30 years 1.

2017年10月13日 · In the early morning of October 1, 2015, the 790-foot cargo ship El Faro began taking on water as it sailed into Hurricane Joaquin, at that time a Category 3 storm in the Bahamas.

Joaquin took the lives of 34 people—all at sea—including the 33 crewmembers of the cargo ship El Faro, which sunk during the storm northeast of Crooked Island. Joaquin is the strongest October hurricane known to have affected the Bahamas since 1866 and the strongest Atlantic hurricane of non-tropical origin in the satellite era.

2015年10月8日 · One crew member from the cargo ship El Faro wrote her mother an email saying the crew was heading directly into Hurricane Joaquin. “Winds are super bad,” she said. “Love to everyone.”...

2015年10月2日 · For more than 36 hours, there’s been no word from, and no sign of, the U.S.-flagged container ship El Faro. That means no news on what’s happened to the 28 Americans and five Poles aboard,...

Hurricane Joaquin, the storm that sealed the fate of the El Faro, began its life as a tropical storm on the 27th of September, 2015. The storm was born in the Atlantic Ocean, from where it then intensified, moved westward, lashed the Bahamian islands and …