At the entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a ...

Today marks the 90th anniversary of the SS Morro Castle disaster, which claimed over 130 lives off the coast of New Jersey. To commemorate the tragedy, the Asbury Park Historical Society is hosting a ...

POINT PLEASANT BEACH - Dive boat captain Bill Cleary may have found a long lost and forgotten artifact of the Morro Castle, the famed ocean liner that caught fire and burned off the Jersey Shore, ...

The book “Inferno at Sea,” the true story of the cruise ship Morro Castle and its New Jersey connection, will be the program for the Tuesday, May 14, meeting of the Historical Preservation Society of ...

The SS Moro Castle caught fire on the morning of September 8, 1934, while sailing from Havana to New York. (Library of Congress) BRIELLE, N.J. — A near century-old, three-story house on Ashley Avenue ...

FIRE AT SEA (280 pp.)—Thomas Gallagher—Rinehart ($4). On the night of Sept. 7, 1934, the fast, modern cruise ship Mono Castle of the Ward Line was bucking into a stiff northeaster off the New Jersey ...