Posted on 09/25/2006 6:28:52 PM PDT by naturalman1975
A NEW South Wales Supreme Court judge will sit in Launceston today to hear the opening of a case in which a Tasmanian man is suing the Federal Government over his part in the Voyager naval disaster.
Geoffrey Singline, 63, is suffering cancer and is seeking unspecified damages for anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse, and special damages for economic loss following the disaster, his lawyer, David Forster of Hollows Lawyers said.
Eighty-two people died when aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collided with destroyer HMAS Voyager, slicing HMAS Voyager in two and sinking it, during an exercise in NSW waters off Jervis Bay on the night of February 10, 1964.
It remains Australia's worst peacetime naval disaster.
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...
If he hasn't found a friendly venue to satisfy his claim after 42 years, why will he now?
While I personally don't think he has a case, it has to be said that for a long time these sailors simply couldn't get a hearing they probably should have been granted - even if it was just to dismiss their case.
So there is some reason to do this now.
Tragiclly, the Melbourne did it again in 1969.When
it cut the U.S. destroyer Evans in half killing 74.
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