INQUIRY OPENS
GROUNDING OF THE MISSOURI NEW YORK, Feb. IS. The commanding officer of the battleship Missouri (Captain William Brown) told' a United States naval board of inquiry to-day that he was “extremely rusty” when he took the ship out on the run on which she grounded on January 17. He said, that he had not commanded a ship from 1943 ffntil he assumed command of the Missouri in December, and had no previous experience in big ships. Captain Brown said that when he took the 45,000-ton Missouri on a trial run on December 22 he did not seem to have the “awareness” required in the handling of big ships. That trial had given him some experience, but even on the run on January 17 he did not understand the battleship’s communication sysfem.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 108, 20 February 1950, Page 3
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133INQUIRY OPENS Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 108, 20 February 1950, Page 3
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