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Three tailmen on the first eight knew the crew strokes, with Tony Murry from Belmont Hill, at starboard three, long-armed Pete Ludwig in two spot, and stubby Bill Warren, former Groton oarsman...
...dawn flushed the snow on the mountains of Lebanon, one of the passengers, Robert Bagarry, went on deck to watch the lights of his home town, Beirut, twinkling on the starboard bow. "We were heading north," he said afterwards. "Then suddenly we turned east ... directly towards the land. I felt like yelling to the bridge to tell them they were wrong, but I said to myself, 'They know better than...
Lieut. Hoefer, who was officer of the deck, had "stepped to the starboard wing of the bridge and asked the captain if he had the conn," i.e., if the captain was taking over responsibility for the ship's course. "He answered, 'I have the conn.' " After the vessel turned to the left, the O.O.D. went so far as to warn the skipper that the Wasp was closing perilously fast. Tierney, he testified, did not reply, and, with the Wasp 1,240 yards away, ordered "left standard rudder" a second time...
...captain was attempting to accomplish by his series of orders was not clear. Lieut. Hoefer did not deny that if successful they would have put the destroyer "expeditiously" on station-presumably if the Hobson's first left turn had been followed by a snappy turn to starboard. When he realized he was in danger, Tierney may have hoped that by cutting more sharply to the left and speeding up, he could dodge the Wasp. The Navy refused to disclose all the testimony or to assist in speculation about ho'w the crash happened. The Hobson, said the Navy...
...darkness she launched her planes over heavy seas for a combat exercise. At a little after 10 p.m., the Wasp turned into the wind to take her brood back aboard. With a crump of rending metal, the sheer bow of the 27,100-ton carrier crashed into the starboard side of the 1,630-ton destroyer-minesweeper Hobson...