The Scandinavian Star cruised between Florida and the Caribbean weeks before she burned.
The Danish owners of the ferry, Scandinavian Star, said they strongly suspected arson.
She is the last surviving ship out of three near identical sisters, the others being the ill-fated Scandinavian Star and the Fred.
Among recent accidents, the Scandinavian Star flying the Bahamian flag caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico on March 15, 1988.
The Scandinavian Star had another fire prior to 1990.
Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.
The Scandinavian Star received its annual checkup six weeks before it caught fire.
There are some eerie parallels to the problems surrounding the fire aboard the Scandinavian Star off Cancun in 1988, described in the article.
On the Scandinavian Star many people died in a fire.
I can name others, including The Herald of Free Enterprise , back in 1987, or, indeed, the more recent Scandinavian Star .