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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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The USS Collett, on a test speed run at 20 knots in fog with 300-yard visibility, collided with the USS Ammen off the Southern California coast, resulting in 11 sailor deaths. Cmdr. Albert Ford noted it would take 500 yards to stop under ideal conditions. Radarmen cited new equipment as a factor.
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LONG BEACH, Calif., (AP) - A destroyer skipper says he was traveling at 20 knots-in a fog where visibility was 300 yards- when another destroyer loomed suddenly ahead of him.
The two collided and 11 sailors died.
Cmdr. Albert Ford acknowledged at a naval court of inquiry yesterday that even under ideal conditions it would take 500 yards to stop his ship, the USS Collett.
Ford said the Collett was on test speed runs when it collided with the USS Ammen off the Southern California coast.
Radarmen couldn't give any reason why the Ammen wasn't sighted earlier, but pointed out that equipment was newly installed and crews weren't used to it yet.
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11 sailors died
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The USS Collett was on test speed runs at 20 knots in fog with 300-yard visibility when it collided with the USS Ammen. Cmdr. Albert Ford acknowledged it would take 500 yards to stop under ideal conditions. Radarmen noted new equipment and unfamiliar crews as factors for not sighting the Ammen earlier.