The Andrea Doria And The Collisions Of The Andrea Doria

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.

On the night of January 26, 2012 at approximately 2001 hours central time, the vessel M/V Delta Mariner collided with the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge near Aurora, Kentucky. She was a roll on/ roll off vessel which at the time of the accident, was carrying NASA booster cores for the Atlas V rocket. The Delta Mariner was 286.8 ft. long and measured 82 ft. across. At her tallest point at the moment of impact, she measured to be 53.43 ft. With the height of span B, the main navigation span, being 57 feet high, the Delta Mariner would have had 3.57 feet of clearance from her highest point to the lowest point of navigation span B. Instead of transiting under this span, her intended route, she transited under span E which was approximately 7.43 feet too short for the Delta Mariner, an 11 foot difference. If the bridge team at the time not relied on the contract pilot’s incorrect guidance, and used the available navigation tools such as the ECS (electronic charting system), she would have navigated under the correct span and avoided the collision with Eggner’s Ferry Bridge (National Transportation Safety Board [NTSB], 2013).

The British luxury passenger ship, The Titanic, set sail on April 10, 1912, en route to New York City from Southampton (Lord ch 1). During her maiden voyage, midnight of April 15, 1912, she began to sink (ch 1). The Titanic had a collision with an iceberg that was around 100 feet tall (“Titanic: 40 Fascinating Facts” 3). Regardless to how greatly manufactured the Titanic was, and with beliefs that she was unsinkable, the miscalculation of human error proves that every possible outcome cannot be prevented, disasters can still occur regardless of careful planning.

Assuming these things, and having the given knowledge, we are to answer the question, if you were on a ship leaving from New York, how many ships from San Francisco would you see in passing?

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

When the titanic was first built it was said to be the fastest, unsinkable, and safest ship. This was the first voyage of the Titanic. There were over 2,200 people on the ship and over 1,500 passengers died. As a result of the sinking of the titanic the radio act of 1912 was passed which improved communications for ships. The radio act included rules that improved the radios by making sure they don't have interferences, put other ships in dangerous situations, and improve the distance they can reach.

In my opinion, if the captain would have listened to the warnings instead of placing the piece of paper in his coat pocket, they might have been able to change course again for a little while until they passed the ice and survived. A couple days before they left England, Captain Smith decided to alter slightly his route because of the many iceberg warnings that he received. The entire day of April 14, 1912 (the day of the sinking), Captain Smith was still receiving iceberg warnings from the other ships around her. They were all saying the same thing: the route he switched to had large amounts of ice floating about. Ignorantly, the Captain did not heed their warnings very well and did not re change it. He did, however, tell the watchmen to tell him if they saw anything ahead of them that could be potentially dangerous.

To this end I will write in this Journal very carefully from day to day all that I might do and see and experience, as will be hereafter seen. Moreover sovereign Princes, in addition to writing each night that which the day had brought forth and each day how I sailed at night. I deign to make a new chart for navigation, in which I will set all the sea and lands of the Ocean Sea in their true places, under their bearings and moreover to compile a book and to set down all, picturing everything by latitude from the equinautical line and by the longitude from the West; and above all it is very fitting that I should forget sleep and give much attention to navigation because it should be so. And these things will be a great labor."

Who is this first-century fashion designer who scorns the red carpet crowd? Only seven verses in Scripture describe this exceptional woman, but we can glean a lot from them. Dorcas, also known as Tabitha, means gazelle. What a picture of delicate beauty and it fits her well. Social animals, gazelles live in large herds – sometimes up to 700. Like gazelles, Dorcas loved being around others and was beloved by the community.

A Japanese destroyer hits an American PT (patrol torpedo) boat, number 109, destroying it by slicing it into two. The destruction was so bad other American PT boats in the area assumed the crew was dead. Two crewmen were killed, but their was eleven survivors, including Lt. John F. Kennedy.

Once the ship was right side up, Engineer Shellgren put the engines hard astern, allowing the steamer to escape. In the harbor, Captain Chance Wiman alerted the approaching Calista and returned to Seattle.

A 1800 Lb bomb smashed through the deck of the battleship USS Arizona. The ships exploded and sank with more than 1000 men trapped inside. “Torpedoes pierced the shell of the battleships USS Oklahoma, with 400 sailors aboard, it sank underwater”

On December 6 1917, hundreds were left dead in Halifax, Nova Scotia due to a human error quick to be immortalized. CBC news says the Imo, a Belgian relief vessel that left the Halifax Harbor behind schedule on the morning of December 6. Another vessel the Mont Blank, a cargo ship leaded with explosive materials, was entering. The Captain of the Imo disregarded the laws of the sea, going over the speed limit for the narrows of the harbor and traversing it from the wrong direction. Both the Imo and Mont Blank moved toward each other, each unwilling to change course. The ships made evasive maneuvers at the same time, causing the vessels to scrape against each other; the sparks from the collision set aflame the explosive materials aboard the Mont

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

In the early 18th century, being able to navigate accurately was the difference of returning home or not. Getting lost on a transoceanic voyage did not just mean that a competing nation could