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To: GATOR NAVY
The last US Navy ship lost to grounding was the USS La Moure County, LST-1194, when she ran at flank speed onto the rocks off Caleta Cifuncho Bay, Chile during a training exercise.

The impact shredded her bow, keel, screws, and rudders, causing extensive flooding and the dumping of some 40,000 gallons of fuel. Pulled off the rocks by a Chilean tug, she was towed up to a nearby naval base, where US salvage experts examined her and determined that she was too badly damage to repair. Stripped of all salvageable material, she was towed out to sea and sunk during a training exercise a few months later.


25 posted on 01/30/2013 9:28:06 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (Molon Labe!)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

La Moure County grounding was due to the the nav team plotting GPS fixes that were in WGS-84 datum on a paper chart that used a local datum so positions were off. Lots of lessons learned messages from that one.

26 posted on 01/30/2013 10:03:01 PM PST by GATOR NAVY
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