What was an old ship sunk in the Indian Ocean on 23 January 1977 by a bomb planted by Austrian businessman Udo Proksch, whos owner of the cargo was aslo the owner of a famous pastry shop and chocolaterie established in 1786 in Vienna, Austria ?
Lucona Lucona was an old ship sunk in the Indian Ocean on 23 January 1977 by a bomb planted by Austrian businessman Udo Proksch, as part of an insurance fraud. Proksch, the owner of the cargo, also then owner of famous Viennese confectioners Demel, claimed 212 mio. schilling (ca. US$20 million) from his insurance company, saying that the cargo was expensive uranium mining equipment. He was subsequently convicted in 1991 of the murder of six crew (of the crew of 12) who were killed by the explosion, and died in prison.
SS Pampa (1906) SS "Pampa" was a French ocean liner converted into a troopship in world War I, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 84 nmi east of Valletta, Malta by SM "UC-22" ( Kaiserliche Marine ) with the loss of 117 lives.