Talk:Honda Point Disaster

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[edit] Why

this article is very detailed but leaves out why exactly the ship ran aground, did the lead ship make an error in it's calculation? were there rough seas? was human error the main cause? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chimera5 (talk • contribs) 10 June 2004

Just heard of this disaster in a talk [1] by Paul Saffo. No sources/books mentioned, but he tells a story of (i) the captain of the lead ship navigating by dead reckoning, (ii) this captain disregarding radio navigation data that contradicted the position he had calculated, (iii) some sort of speed record being attempted, (iv) a standard operating procedure where destroyers always tried to stay clustered together, and where all ships in a cluster took their navigational information from the lead ship. From his story, the navigator of the Kennedy (I think) did his own calculations from the radio data, and his captain was worried enough to hang back a little bit when the fatal order was issued. Because of this, it was a seven ship pileup instead of an eleven ship pileup, and the captain of the Kennedy was court martialled for not sticking with the pack. A fascinating story, I haven't added it to the main article because it's not sufficiently sourced, I'd love to get more info on it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.229.252 (talk) 20:17, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikilink

Minor point: the link for the word "Extricate", in the list of ships, goes to a music album. I assume that wasn't the plan. I didn't remove it, in case someone actually wanted to point it at something of value, but felt it was worth pointing out. Tonerman 07:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks like somebody changed it to a wiktionary link now. Brianhe (talk) 18:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rating

And I thought I might point out, in my opinion, this article is probably at least a B class article. Since I'm not part of this project, I didn't feel right setting it as such (I don't even really know who's allowed to.). But I felt I ought to throw in my 2 cents, in case anyone was planning to evaluate it. Tonerman 07:40, 31 March 2007 (UTC)