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...February 9, the Greeneville, demonstrating its maneuvers for an on-board civilian audience, struck the Japanese fisheries training boat Ehime Maru, killing nine passengers. The disaster strained U.S. relations with Japan and raised serious questions about the U.S. Navy's practice of taking civilians onto active military vessels...
...courtroom was stunned. It was the 12th and final day of testimony in the inquiry into why the 6,300-ton nuclear sub shot to the surface in a procedure known as a ballast blow, slicing into the hull of the 58-m Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little...
...courtroom was stunned. It was the 12th and final day of testimony in the inquiry into why the 6,900-ton nuclear sub shot to the surface in a procedure known as a ballast blow, slicing into the hull of the 190-ft. Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little...
Along with the Japanese training boat Ehime Maru, the U.S. submarine also sank the credibility of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, who continued to play golf after getting news of the fatal accident. TETSURO UMEJI Ube, Japan...
Surely the most disturbing point was the Americans' labeling the Ehime Maru "a fishing vessel" instead of a high school training boat. If a Japanese warship had sunk an American ship with high school students onboard, causing the death of several of them, what would the American public have said? DAVID WOOD Fukuoka, Japan...