In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, a fire started in a closet aboard the cruise ship Morro Castle, which was passing along the New Jersey coast after a trip to Havana, Cuba.

When the New York-to-Cuba vacation liner Morro Castle was gutted by fire off the New Jersey coast in 1934 with the loss of 124 lives, closest approach to a hero to emerge from the muckraking ...

Havana is the capital city of Cuba, located on the north coast of the island. It is the largest city in Cuba and has a ...