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AND NOW COMES THE MOST AGONISING MOMENT OF ALL
Once I loved the sea, but
(Continued from Page 6) collision was the temperaturer of the ship's freezers, and asked him whether or not anything else had been noted in that log such as fog for that day, precautions?
"I don't remember," said the captain. There is nothing else written here."
"I see. Just one more ques
the tion about it, Captain," Swedish
said Lano attorney casually. "When you wrote the log up in your cabin was it in the same physical condition that you now see it! And I direct your attention to various places in the cover and pages which show that the book, as I ace →
I am wrong, correct me---lids been taken apart and restapled together."
"I object to this question," thundered
Line the Italian attorney, jumping to his feet. After argument back and forth between the two lawyers, the hearing master ruled that Cap- tain Calamal should answer the question Butt Underwood pressed his objection. Striding to the witness-stand and Inking • the logbook from Captain Calamala hands, Underwood anid, "I want a moment 10 cogitate and see whether I will submit to that,"
Inspecting the logbook. ho walked up and down the front of the room, turulag the pages une by one, While the whole courtroom watched, the
from logbook fell lawyer's hands to the floor. Beveral pages skidded across the floor,
the
now I hate it...
THE MEN WHOSE REPUTATIONS WERE AT STAKE
ON THE BRIDGE of the Stockholm was Third Oncer Carstens. Peder Larsen (inset) was helmsman at the time of the collision.
דיי
THE MASTER of the Stockholm
He was Captain Nordenion. vigorously defended Carstone. "Inexperience is not the same as incompetence....
ilan with "I don't know" Or "I the Stockholm, according to the radar observations, would Haight protested vehemently, don't remember,"
It clear the Darla. barely in causing the One faciOr He wanted an answer to his question. What had
showed a collition course. Just Andrea Doria to list so charply happened, he asserted, made no was that her fuel tanks, in the
Second Offeer Franchini difference because his office had bottom of the ship, were almost had reported to you that even photographe of the logbook as empty,
Journey her
being Anished. had appeared before. Was the nearly
The star- though you had altered the
hord book in the same condition it boord side tanka
been. Doria's course four degrees to the passing distance had been on the afternoon ruptured, letting in a huge dead- your left, before the collision? he weight of water. The air-filed had closed from 0.0 miles to 0.2 Halghi asked, "would demanded..
port sido tanks had acted as a 1niles," balloon.
you have continued ahead with Ballasting of the emply tanks the Derlo at 21.6 knols?"
have might
preserved the stability, suggested Halght. Did the ship's cortificate of safely lay down any requirements about that?
The mystery
"No," repiled Calimal Im- pesolvely. "May I explain?"
"Yes, anything you wish," said the lawyer,
1
"If I had had that informa-
Left the radar
to
tlon," Captain Calama! replied. "1 would have stopped the engines Immediately. giving astern and "I took the book from the "No, it had no neference to them fall speed
coming possibly to the right, floor of my cabin and gave the that," said Calamal. dooounting logbook to the cadet Pressing his questions about giving the signal of a turn Maracel, who put it under his why the Doria took an im- the right." jacket. And I heard later in mediate list of 18 to 10 degrees, New York that the logbook had Haight asked if the Italian Line become wet and that it was not had supplied the captain with in the condition os before.” information on the stability of
The commander of the Andrea. "Did you hear how the log the ship under emergency con- book
Doria Anally was saying in effect The captain said he did not that, if his second oficer had Haight.
plotted the radar observations of "Probably while the cadet remember.
the Stockholm when she was was going in the lifeboat there
Had the Halian
Line
three and a half or five miler water," answered
warned him that excessive
away or had remained to watch heeling might result if the the radar ply when the Stock Andrea Doria should sustain holm turned to its right two unaşmmetrical flooding? The miles away, Captain Calamai
re- would not have lost his ship. captain said he did not member.
was
captain.
become wel?" naked ditions.
the
The question of the logbooks recurred again and again during the cross-examination of Cap tain Calamai and other officers of the Andres Darla.
If the logbooks and navigation
charts had been available," they
Protest
Haight questioned
When Second Officer Franchini went to the witness-stand, he testifled he did not plot rudar
because
had 12
would have gone for in recon-
Captain observations structing the positiona and Calamai for almost two full never been the practice to do so open rea under Captain course of the Italian ship before days on the stability of the n the collision, and thereby Andrea
Dorin, before he went Calamal's command. solving. the mystery of the on to navigational matters. hearing how could the radar
Franchini, after working out Haight, then setting out to substantially the same plots on on the Andrea Doria show the Stockholm to her right and the prove that even by the observa- the manoeuvring board us had that night he rador on the Stockholm show tons made aboard the Andrea Captain Calamai, said that it the Doria to be to the left? Dorin the two ships were not be had plotted
The answer simply was that on parallel opposite courses to would have seen.that the Stock- ether one of the radar sets pass starboard to starboard, ap- holm was turning to starboard. had been wrong or the men proached the witness chair and At no time that night as he
captain a pad of interpreting the radar on one of handed the
the ships had been wrong. The plotting paper.
watched his radar scope did he the Stockholm problem of The lawyers was He asked the explain to plot suspect that
was making a tama. to determine which officer, the rador observations, as He admitted that after he Carstens or Calamat, had been remembered, aboard the Duria. in error.
Captain Calamat took he had left the radar it must have
'I don't know'
paper, looked at it, and said softly. "It is the first time I ace." "Do you know how to use this
ON THE BRIDGE of the Andrea Doria were Captain Calamat (centre), Third Oncer Giannini fleft), Second Oficer
Franchini fright)..
Pag
IT COST £300,000 to repair the Stookholm's bow
their
the active *countersult, Ho was kept on did and never will reach such dropped"
the cost of the rolls of the Italian Line in a final judgment; for in January absorbing
shortly before the £300,000 now 1957,
Stockholm bow Genoa mtl be reached the of officers the and the estimated £300,000 loss mandatory retirement age of 60. engineering
Thon in Deoarber 1957, with- Andrea Doria were scheduled of business during repairs, to take the witness-stand the case was settled out of court.
Damages
com-
"To which side would you shown clearly that the Stock-
have turned?" asked Hoight. holm was on a collision course.
"Probably to the right," came The Swedish Line attorney walked up to the witness choir the reluctant answer,
to the radar plot
The Swedish Line,, in a bold out having been given and pointed
had worked All this left still unanswered which Franchini
demonstration of its confidence mand of another ship, the was two
in itu men, rewarded Captain quietly selfred. ships the barle question of whether been
Nordenson and Third Omcor It is extremely doubtful ships actually hadi the out showing the converging.
daally Carstens by tamedlately assign whether Captain Calemai, after had not right-to-right or left-to-left "If the explain
der. The settlement, as
tragic experième, would Viking Fleet, the have accepted command of on- bern on the bridge and you before their 30s-minute as watch officer at the radar Perate turns. It has remained a worked out, provided for bath ing them to the now flagship of pla
drop their damage its White
other ship. He said "When I action 23,000-ton Gripsholm. lad aten by plotting that the source of controversy because lines to
the question is not ausceptible to suits, ending all legal
And Captain Calamal? While wear a boy, and, all my life, I against each other. passing distance was closing,"
a direct and absolute proof, Would
Thus the Italian Line and its the other officers und men of the loved the sea; now I hate it!”
,,, resigned asked Halght, "what
insurers absorbed the loss of Andrea Doria were you have done?"
sailed to other ships, he never The Swedish Line Interests again." Franchini hesitated and tried
their £10,000,000 ship. "It all to duck the question,
thia depends," he said. The Swedish Linu attorney pressed question and Frenchin!, some- what abashed, finally replied "Y would not like to answer because it takes me in a position eventually the to criticise manoeuvre of the commander. want to answer, Whatever I would have done, i would not because the captain did manoeuvre."
for help.
his
room
There was an electric silence. Underwood, his hands clasped behind his back, paced the floor. Haight, in a compassionate tone of voice, told Franchini, who was looking round the
"M Franchini, I respect your not wanting in any way to criticise the captain's manoeuvre, but each one is in this court to answer questions and I do, as best as he can, please, want an answer to question."
me
re-
Franchini looked despair- I ingly at linderwood. "Do have to answer?" he asked, The Italian Line lawyer plled bluntly: "If you under- stand tha question.. You should answer it.”
"Academically speaking," said pausing for the second officer, breath, "most probably I would have roversed the engines turned to one ride"
Captain Calemal tacitly ad kind of plotting sheet?" asked Curious Characters: No. 10
mitted at least partial respon-
Haight.
albility for the collision when he "I am not very familiar be- testified the Andrea Doria was cause this is one work I let the 66 proceeding through
dense for officers do," said Captain which limited visibility to a halt Calamat.
mile at 210 knots, almost her Underwood protested that the full speed.
captain should not be forced to
The captain starprived The do something which he admitted court,
when he he was unfamiliar with and admitted that he did not know left 10 his officers.
however,
the
Haight the stopping power of his ship. insisted arguing that in order He also said he did not know to use radar and cheek on his how much distance the Andrea officers, the captain of Doria requires to make a full Andrea Doria had to know how 90-degree burti,/
to Interpret radar. The malic was referred to the president, ruled in favour of the who Swedish Line attomey.
That dala had not been tested during the trial runs of the ship in 1932 or since. It was like
Eying he was driving a cor 'I see now...
without knowing the "stopping power of its brakes.
and
"Big Dan" weighed
52 stone!
WHEN he was born in March, 1770, at Leicester, WHE
Daniel Lambert looked like any other child and his size was normal until he was 19. Then Daniel began to grow.
Before long, he was the big- of them how to swim. He him
the self was so buoyant that he could But it was clear novertheless After several hours of ob- | gest and strongest man in.
He could it a five support two mea
on his Back that steaming at 21.8 knots, the Jections and arguments, Captain world
i while he floated Andrea Doria we not complying Calamai plotted the significant hundredweight load with caso, Curiously, although "Big Da with the rule of the mad which distances and bearings at which
was so, enormous, he was hands He now measured 112 inches requires a ship to proceed In the Stockholm was observed,
When speed" or
that had been done, some, petive and strong in around the middle. fog at a "moderate
In later fe, Big Dan went to "Io it not character, ane in which it can be stopped Haight asked:
Big Dan *TDW and grow. live in London. There, he be in half the distance of visibility correct that the radar obawn-
foreign count-a 37 inches friended ahead.
Ulons, distance and bearing, Soon, he measured
the dwart to climb so that he eculd talk to Big Dan.
It has been estimated that to set forth in your report to round the calf. His weight, in dwarf, only two feet four inches stop the Andrea Doria dead in the Italian Line, ahow that in his mid-twenties, was 32 atone. high. They built, a ladder for the water from a spoed of 218 fact the Stockholm was not on knots, would fake about two, a course papallot to the coLIMO miles. Het the deluxe of of the Andrea Doria?" visibility that night was quarter milk:
roon and
Still Grow
Big Dan diot and was buried at Stamford. His colin wAN KİK
ont- There was a silence in the Not surprisingly, behaviour.
Captain then
TURK exemplary at the prison feel four inches long and five The Swedish Line attorney Celamal answered in a dort, where he was a warder.
feet wido. It was made¦ from. devoted elmoet half of his pathetic voice. "I can nooit
And still be grow. His fame 120 square foot of timber lenging crom-examination of the now from the manoeuvring
the stability of bourd.** Loaptain: to
spread around the country, and a DE PER ANIMA the Andres Dorto, implying that, The plot on the manoeuvring then Europe, Blager and bigger long ramb was dus ood down, this the coping was Tallan unor should have board indeed dig show that clothes had to be made whole to the grave It took
him Five men could get into. withstood the collision without
hia wadstones Spesial beds had twenty muni ta manoeuven 11
down the slopwonin
But on stability matines, Cap-
The
book, Colilafon 'Courat, to be bull nge him and And when it gene inter
Big Dan-Wanfrieral of all three thousand people ma calldre Hot trught: hundrede at the' gravesida”:
Bain, Calamad displayed a warm, from - watch him wežies piling lack of knowligo, adepind, will be published in KONTEINE QUNation after quand Brilla by Longman,
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