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.

On Sept. 7, 1934 Captain Robert Willmott of the Ward Liner Morro Castle suddenly died. Chief Officer William Ferdinand Warms took command. That night, a few miles off Asbury Park, N. J., ...

Last week the Morro Castle, having finally been dragged off the New Jersey beach where she grounded in flames seven months ago, was sold for scrap to Union Shipbuilding Co. of Baltimore.