Cruise Ship Law

A mourning family returned to the Hub last night after a Bermuda cruise turned tragic with the death of a beloved 22-year-old from Malden.

Richard Mulloy III fell more than 40 feet off the ship’s upper deck early Wednesday morning.

“I don’t know how to say this,” said his grandfather, Richard Mulloy of Belmont. “He was very humane. He loved his mother and father and was a good kid.”

The cruise was a family reunion trip that had been planned for years.

“The whole family organized it, figured it out and saved the time to put it aside,” said Richard Mulloy Jr., father of the young man who had returned from a night out on St. George’s Island when he fell from the fifth deck to the first deck of the Norwegian Majesty cruise ship.

“They were waiting for an elevator trying to get to a disco on the ship. He fell over the banister between the sets of stairs and fell on the (lower) deck,” Richard Mulloy Jr. said.

Two onboard nurses tried to save Mulloy III after he fell around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday, but he died from his injuries within hours at a local hospital, according to a Bermuda police report.

Bermuda police said yesterday the incident is under investigation.

A law enforcement source told the Herald that police have no reason to believe the fall was anything other than an accident.

The younger Mulloy was a graduate of Malden Catholic High School.He was an independent insurance worker and was on the waiting list to become a Malden firefighter.

“He was the middle child in that family. He’s my only grandson. . . . He was named after me - Richard Sullivan Mulloy. He’s the third, but that’s the end of the line now,” the elder Mulloy said somberly.

Richard Mulloy Jr. returned to Boston last night with his wife and two daughters. His son’s body was flown home separately.

“He was a great kid,” said Mulloy Jr. “He could always make everybody laugh. I was proud of him, and everything is sinking in. I’m just in shock.”

Boston Herald
By Colneth Smiley Jr.