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1976: 78 passengers are killed in America's 3rd worst peacetime maritime disaster when the errantly piloted ferry, George Prince, is collided with by the Norwegian tanker Frosta on the Mississippi River just north of New Orleans. The stricken vessel immediately capsized, killing the entire crew and passengers in their vehicles and the vessel's cabin as the Frosted passed directly over the smaller ferry making keel to keel contact!! The ferry pilot had not yielded proper cutomary right-of-way to the much larger Frosta pilot's 2 warning horns and nor responded to radio messages; and had turned 90 degrees to cross the river too its destination...directly across the tanker's route; which was powerless to slow down or shift course out of the river's shallow bigship channel close to east bank.