The consequent shortage of lifeboats could have resulted in significant loss of life, but the ship stayed afloat for over 11 hours after the collision.
Struck in her starboard side, the top-heavy Andrea Doria immediately started to list severely that way as she took on water, which left half of her lifeboats unusable. On 25 July 1956, the New York City–bound vessel was approaching the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States, when the eastbound passenger liner Stockholm of the Swedish American Line collided with her. Launched on 16 June 1951, she was home-ported in Genoa, and began her maiden voyage on 14 January 1953. Of all Italy's ships at the time, Andrea Doria was the largest, fastest and supposedly safest. Named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, the ship had a gross register tonnage of 29,100 and a capacity of about 1200 passengers and 500 crew. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking in 1956, which included the remarkably successful rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew. SS Andrea Doria pronounced, was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953. Sunk on the night of 26 July 1956 after colliding with MS Stockholm 46 deaths
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