Andrea Doria Sinks After 1956 Collision With StockholmThe Andrea Doria left Genoa, Italy, with 1,706 passengers and crew on July 17, 1956, bound for New York. At 11:05 p.m., Andrea Doria captain Piero Calamai ordered a four-degree turn to port. A 1964 expedition retrieved most of the life-size bronze statue of Admiral Andrea Doria from the first-class lounge. Inside the Andrea Doria, divers have had to navigate sideways stairways, collapsing passages, decaying metal and dangling wires. Andrea Doria divers have countered that the rapidly deteriorating wreck can bury or destroy objects as sections collapse and debris shifts.