“Everything was so black ... Then, all of a sudden, boom, the life jacket pulled me up really fast,' Alfonso Caliendo said, remembering jumping from the cruise liner as it sank.
in Beach Haven on Long Beach Island, along with some correspondence pertaining to the Andrea Doria. The letters include a law firm assessing his claim for damages and offering $200 for lost clothing and other property that went down with the ship.
His guests on Thursday heard Caliendo’s account of the Italian transatlantic ocean liner’s collision with the Stockholm, a passenger liner, approximately 45 miles south of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Caliendo said he was brought aboard the boat and given a blanket. He then found a second use for his life jacket.Italian words mark the back of a life jacket worn by Alfonso Caliendo, 83, a survivor of the Andrea Doria shipwreck, at Caliendo Gallery in Franklin on Thursday, September 28, 2023.Caliendo was among 1,660 rescued from the Andrea Doria, which did not sink until 11 hours after the collision. Of the 46 that died, most were believed to gave been killed by the impact.
On Thursday, he put on the life jacket for what he said was the first time since the shipwreck. It has an inscription on the back under an image of a crown that reads, in part, “Italia Societa di Navigazione” — the official name of the Italian Line, the company that owned and operated the Andrea Doria.
“Sharing this experience with Alfonso reminds us that every survivor has their own unique story tell. Artifacts, whether they come from a survivor or they are recovered from the wreck, help connect us to the people who lived and died aboard ships like Andrea Doria and remind us of the historical significance of these vessels and their moments in time,” Sellitti said.
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