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By the time the blaze was discovered, the wooden superstructure was ablaze and the ship was doomed.  Scores of elderly passengers were trapped in their cabins. The first lifeboat to reach rescue ships contained the captain and chief officers. Eighty-seven people died in the fire; all but two were passengers.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can see cabin 610 on the plan and understand how its location next to the galley would shoot flames up the vents and into the wooden structure. Ironically, Yarmouth Cruise Lines claimed the ships were \"maintained to the highest classification standards of the American Bureau of Shipping.\" Technically that was correct as the pair had exemptions from fire standards for their wooden superstructures in an effort to keep old coastal vessels sailing. 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Shortly after midnight a fire started in cabin 610. By the time the blaze was discovered, the wooden superstructure was ablaze and the ship was doomed.  Scores of elderly passengers were trapped in their cabins. The first lifeboat to reach rescue ships contained the captain and chief officers. Eighty-seven people died in the fire; all but two were passengers.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can see cabin 610 on the plan and understand how its location next to the galley would shoot flames up the vents and into the wooden structure. Ironically, Yarmouth Cruise Lines claimed the ships were \"maintained to the highest classification standards of the American Bureau of Shipping.\" Technically that was correct as the pair had exemptions from fire standards for their wooden superstructures in an effort to keep old coastal vessels sailing. 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