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...officer unemotionally went back and forth over the dozen minutes of his life that he would never forget nor be allowed to forget. On the night of July 25, Third Mate Johan-Ernst Carstens-Johannsen, 26, was in command of the bridge of the 12,500-ton Swedish liner Stockholm when she speared and sank the 29,000-ton Italian liner Andrea Doria. At stake, as he told his story, were not only legal claims totaling some $40 million but the still unanswered questions of blame in the great North Atlantic shipping tragedy (TIME...
...took the watch on Stockholm's bridge at 8:30 p.m., said Carstens-Johannsen. About an hour later Captain H. G. Nordenson went below, leaving him in command to maintain a course of 87°. The speed was 18 or 19 knots, and the night, he testified, was clear, with good visibility and a full view of the moon. As Stockholm sliced eastward from New York Harbor toward Nantucket lightship, he was bothered only by ocean currents that pulled the ship two or three miles northward off course, and by the need to keep a weather...
...running a few miles south of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, an "informal" sea lane charted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and generally followed by the big transatlantic liners of the U.S., Britain, France and Holland, but not necessarily by the Italians and the Swedes. Eastbound Stockholm was about 19½ miles north of the eastbound lane of Charlie...
...calculated that she would pass to port within half a mile to a mile of Stockholm. He did not see Andrea Doria's lights until she was 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...
Holding onto her hat, Contralto Marian Anderson, well-armed with a rich repertory of Negro spirituals, operatic arias and just plain old songs, took off from New York's International Airport at Idlewild for Stockholm, the first stop on an eleven-week concert tour of Europe...