When Pierette Simpson was nine years old, hergrandparents sold everything in their native Italy to bring her to America. But along the way, The Andrea Doria luxury liner collided with another ship, The Stockholm, and sank. A lifeboat saved Simpson and her family.

But 51 people died, and the captain was unjustly blamed for the catastrophe near Cape Cod, Massachusetts on July 25, 1956. Now, as the 60th anniversary of the shipwreck approaches, Pierette Simpson of Novi is shooting a short film that she wrote to commemorate this notorious maritime disaster – and to set the record straight about the beleaguered captain.

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Source: http://michronicleonline.com/