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...board of three rear admirals last week fixed the blame for the mid-Atlantic collision between the aircraft carrier Wasp and the destroyer-minesweeper Hobson last April (TIME, May 5). The convicted culprit was not there to hear the verdict: Commanding Officer William J. Tierney went down with his ship...
Lieut. Commander Tierney, concluded the board, committed a "grave error of judgment" in making a sharp left turn into the path of the onrushing Wasp. This turn was the "sole cause" of the collision, said the admirals, completely absolving the Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault. They advanced three theories to explain Tierney's disastrous maneuver: 1) he had become "completely confused," and thought that a sharp left turn would bring him to his correct position; 2) he ordered "left rudder" when he meant to say "right rudder"; 3) he thought...
Last week Genoa's Piaggio & Co., makers of Italy's first scooter, the Vespa (wasp), invaded the U.S. market with a roar. Sears, Roebuck & Co., which had ordered 1,000 Vespas as an experiment, sent a rush order for 5,000 more by September, and Piaggio prepared to supply Sears with up to 2,000 a month thereafter. Price...
York area, began an audacious piece of improvisation. While the Wasp was still far at sea, he sent hull-repair experts racing out on a destroyer to intercept her; they surveyed the damaged bow and radioed their findings. In New York, Admiral Cowdrey ordered a matching bow section removed from the Wasp's sister ship, the Hornet-which was being modernized at Brooklyn-and floated to Bayonne, N.J. on a barge. The new bow was fitted into place after the battered Wasp was drydocked...
Seven hundred navy-yard workers, working shifts around the clock, began what was to be one of the most amazing major repairs of a capital ship in U.S. naval history. The job cost approximately $1,000,000. This week, only ten days after limping into port, the Wasp was refloated and ready again...