![]() In 1996, a website in Germany translated part of this Hemmings article and added additional information. I contributed to an article authored by a New York Times reporter that appeared in the Hemmings Motor News in the early 1990's. I have been back to the cargo area several times (it is pretty scary in the cargo hold because the ship is lying on its starboard side) and visited the Norseman on a couple other occasions. ![]() The tires are still there and have assisted to its identification. The ocean's salt water invaded the Norseman's metal and most of the car is rust, corrosion and a heap of indistinguishable junk. The crate had disintegrated and the car was in very, very poor condition. While looking for a lost diver, I had an opportunity to see the Norseman for myself in the cargo hold. The Norseman was put into a wooden crate and placed in the number 2 cargo area. However, the Norseman was no passenger vehicle and was specially packed and treated with extra care. These cars would have been placed on to the Doria by use of a crane and meticulously parked in the garage and arranged strategically for stability. Normally, all passenger cars were placed in the garage section of the Andrea Doria that is slightly aft of the collision point where the Stockholm impaled the Doria underneath the bow wing bridge. It is thought that the complete development of this automobile cost more than $100,000 1956-dollars. The Norseman was a special prototype car that was a joint project of Chrysler and Ghia. ![]() One of the "casualties" of the Andrea Doria sinking has received quite a bit of attention in the past decade however, this casualty was not a person but a beautiful automobile called the Norseman. ![]()
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