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  • Man sues over naval disaster

    09/25/2006 6:28:52 PM PDT · by naturalman1975 · 4 replies · 359+ views
    The Australian ^ | 25th September 2006 | James Duncan
    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...