I saw a training film on this in the early eighties. I don't remember now where the EVANS was in relation to the CV when they startred to manuever, but the film had a matrix of all the possible course and speed combinations available to the EVANS' OOD (come right, come left, speed up, slow down, maintain course, maintain speed, etc.). Unfortunately, he choose the one combination that guaranteed a collision.
If I remember, of the OOD and JOOD on watch, one was killed and the other tried at GCM.
I was an RD3 aboard the USS Tawasa ATF-92, we towed what was left of the Frank E. Evans to Subic after the collision. We had just got off line in Viet Nam and were on the way to Australia for R&R. I never did get to Australia.
I have heard of this incident, but just barely.
I am told that The Citadel uses this incident as a case study in command decision making. The officers on the bridge of the USS Evans made some mistakes.