Ally

This ship was originally the La Marseillaise of Messageries Maritimes, and later the Arosa Sky. She was acquired by Costa in 1959 and named Bianca C but was destroyed by fire only two years later, when an explosion in an engine starter manifold ruptured a fuel tank and caused a fire which was soon out of control. The accident occured at St George in Grenada, on a cruise from Venezuela. Passengers and crew were evacuated safely (although three crew died in the explosion and fire) and Bianca C was being towed away from the harbour entrance when she sank off Punta Salinas in the Antilles Sea.