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...fatal July 25 Andrea Doria was steaming westbound at 23 knots from Genoa to New York when, about 3 p.m., some 175 miles off Nantucket, she ran into thick fog, testified Captain Calamai. He personally took command of the bridge, cut speed to 21.8 knots, ordered automatic fog warnings sounded at 1½-minute intervals (audible at a distance of four miles). Around 8 p.m. his second and third mates came on watch, joining him on the bridge. He hung closely within a few degrees of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, the "informal" sea lane marked...
...When Stockholm was two miles off and still closing, Calamai and his third officer walked to the starboard wing of the bridge. "Why don't we hear him?" asked the third officer. "Why doesn't he whistle?" Not until Stockholm was about one mile off through the fog, Calamai testified, did the third officer see through his binoculars a "glow" of white light...
...Encouraged by the superb defensive play of 240-lb. Tackle Proverb Jacobs, California's twice-beaten Golden Bears pushed favored Pitt all over Berkeley's fog-shrouded Memorial Stadium, upset the Panthers...
...less than two miles away. (At once the counsel for the Italian Line pounced: "What do you think obscured the lights?" Replied Carstens-Johannsen: "That's what I'm also wondering," and then he conceded that Andrea Doria might have been obscured by "patches of fog.") In any case, mindful of the captain's order not to pass within a mile of another ship, he ordered a sharp turn to starboard, thus pulling Stockholm about 22° to starboard...
...principal issues between Stockholm and Andrea Doria began to come clear. The Swedes insist that the night was clear; the Italians hold that it was "dark and foggy," hence, the captain should have been on the bridge, Stockholm should have cut her speed, posted extra watches and sounded fog warnings. The Swedes insist that the ships were steaming port-to-port, with ample room to pass; the Italians counter flatly that they were starboard-to-starboard, and that Stockholm veered to a collision course even as Carstens-Johannsen thought he was widening...