[GATOR NAVY]

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.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Kind of like the Honda Point Disaster back in 1923, when the navigator of the lead destroyer failed to realize that a massive earthquake a week earlier had caused severe current fluctuations in the area. The fourteen ships of DESRON 11 turned and charged full speed onto the rocks at Honda Point instead of into the Santa Barbara Channel.

Seven destroyers were lost, two were damaged, and twenty-three sailors died in the fiasco.