Case Study: Ship Casualty Project

The current event under discussion is actually a series of events. This year, four Navy ships have collided with other ships or run aground in the pacific region. This has resulted in at least 7 dead, 8 injured, and10 missing sailors. While Navy ship collisions are rare, the reasons behind these collisions has forced the Navy to reexamine its policies and will impact global leadership.

February 15th, 1898, the USS Maine was hit with a mine as it sat in the Havana Harbor. There is large speculation to whether that is the truth or not. Over the years it is still a topic of debate as of what caused the explosion. Some believe that the Spaniards did it, others believe it was a clumsy mistake of misplaced ammo, others believe it was a spontaneous coal fire that caught a box of ammunition on fire. No matter the cause, the loss of the ship and 260 of her crew was devastating to America at the time and led to strong feelings of dislike towards the Spaniards, leading to the Spanish-American war of 1898. The theories behind the explosion of the USS Maine is mainly focused around two ideas, there are many angles that can be viewed for the cause of this disaster and its fueling of the war that will be examined in this paper.

While sailing on the Havana Harbor in Cuba, an unexpected explosion erupts sinking the 6,000 ton boat killing 260 men.

In the thirty-eight years of the United States Naval Submarine Service no United States submarine had ever sunk an enemy vessel. With the ignition of the Second World War the poorly equipped and poorly trained Silent Service, nicknamed for the limited access of the media to the actions and achievements of the submarines, would be thrust into the position American submariners had longed for. The attack on Pearl Harbor left the United States Navy with few options for retribution. The three remaining aircraft carriers were to be “the last line of defense.” Commander Stuart S. Murray made the precarious situation clear to his skippers, captains, upon sending them on their first war patrol. He stressed the importance of smart sailing by

At approximately 1:40pm on Saturday March 26, 2016, UCPD Officer Jonathan Santiago was on the first floor of Shippee Hall and smelled marijuana coming from Shippee 132B. Hall Director on Duty, Robin Bogen, arrived to the scene at around 1:42pm. After the arrival of a second UCPD officer at approximately 1:45pm, Officer Santiago knocked on the door of Shippee 132B to speak with Resident Ross Rackin regarding the strong smell of marijuana that was coming from the room. Following the conversation, Officer Santiago issued Resident Rackin an infraction for drug paraphernalia. At the conclusion of the incident, Hall Director Bogen and Resident Assistant Emily Cassidy introduced themselves to Resident Rackin. Resident Rackin appeared to be agitated

command. Although lives were lost in both tragedies, the incidents that occurred on the USS

The battleships, primary targets in the attack, remained anchored along an area referred to as “Battleship Row”. Within minutes after the assault began the USS Arizona sunk to the bottom of the bay taking 1,177 lives with her

Our engines start up, and send a slight jolt throughout the ship. Off in the distance, I spot three enemy battleships, two cruisers, and a carrier in the center. We are now in a fight for survival as we leave the decimated island behind us. I continue to fire the gun at the enemy fleet. Another shell hits us right in the stern, damaging the rudders. I look back at our once beautiful island; she is filled with craters and dead sailors. She is lost to the Japanese Imperial

The Nevada would be the only battleship that managed to get moving that day (p. 244 SW). The ship was damaged, but moving became an absolute necessity due to the burning oil in the water that was getting too close to the ship (p. 244 SW). Once she was underway the ship drew the attention of the enemy planes (p.120 HPW). The planes hit the ship with several bombs, hoping that they could sink her and block the channel of the harbor (p. 120 HPW). They fortunately failed and the Nevada was eventually beached at Hospital Point (p. 120 HPW).

The year is 1898 on the 15th of February a date that will forever be associated with beginning the change of the structure of the world’s balance of power, the USS Maine, the first battleship primarily made of steel in America, is inexplicably blown up sinking into the Havana harbor killing 266 sailors, at this point in time this was the largest single loss of American sailors lives in American history. The battle ship was posted there under the guise of a friendly visit but, in actuality was there to protect American citizens, interest, and quell any possible trouble to emerge in the area due to the anti-Spanish rioting in Havana. The sinking of the Maine outraged Americans; their rage was further intensified by sensational newspaper

Not until the Gulf of Tonkin Incident would a trigger to war be so scrutinized and clouded in mystery as the destruction of the USS Maine. Over one hundred years later there is still a debate over what caused the explosion on the Maine and ultimately led the United States to war with Spain. The debate of the USS Maine’s destruction is over whether the explosion came from inside the ship, the internal explosion theory, or came from an outside the ship, the external explosion theory. Most of these arguments are focused on the cause of the explosion, whether a fire broke out on board or if a perpetrator, either the Spanish or Cuban rebels caused the explosion. This paper will mainly focus on warning but also talk about the origin of the explosion,

After the collision last month, the heavily-damaged Fitzgerald went back to Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan. The Navy and Coast Guard are investigating the incident. Because of what those seven sailors suffered and what their families are now paying, decency demands that we be cautious in drawing conclusions about the causes of the collision. This collision will reminds us that there is no such thing as a safe

At dusk, the pilot and passengers load the aircraft and departed the airport. The flight departed under visual flight rules and visual meteorological conditions. The weather was reported at

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company (NNS) performs designs, construction, repair and overhaul for ships, primarily for the United States Navy. On February 1987, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) issued a subpoena duces tecum to NNS demanding financial statements, federal income tax return, Virginia income tax return and associated schedules for the period 1 January 1983 to 1987. NNS provided the state tax returns to DCAA but withheld the reminder of the subpoenaed documents claiming the demand was unlawful and unenforceable and filed a declaratory judgement action which the Government moved to dismiss. The district court denied DCAA’s order for the documents and the Government appealed this decision.

The White Star Line was owner of the Titanic, which was the largest and most luxurious ship in the world at the time. On April 10th, 1912, the Titanic left from Southampton, England with 2,227 passengers aboard bound for New York City. On April 14th, the ship struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland and sank about 2 ½ hours later. Passengers, mostly women and children, were loaded into lifeboats, however only 705 passengers survived as many lifeboats left partially full.