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Message: [QUOTE="Samuel Halpern, post: 109360, member: 137378"] Jim. If I recall correctly, Rowe was not on the docking bridge when the accident happened but was pacing the poop back and forth from port to starboard trying to keep warm I suppose. This was from a letter he wrote in the 1960s, so take it for what its worth. He also said he saw the berg when he got over to the starboard side and thought it was going to hit the bridge. But he also said that he did not believe the ship was under starboard helm at the time. After the berg passed by he went onto the bridge and took the log. He also mentioned in the letter that he felt the engines reverse, but he did not say if the berg had gone by by that time. We know that Lightoller believed the engines were not put full astern when the accident happened, and he should know since he took part in the ship's trials when they actually did that to see the stopping distance. We also have quite a bit of evidence that it took some time (a minute or two) before the engines came to a stop following the collision, and then they were put in slow reverse to take some way off the ship for a very short time. >>Your example was a warship - different animal all together. << That warship, USS Saipan, was an amphibious assault ship which was 833 ft X 106 ft X 27 ft and displaced about 40,000 tons. It's like a relatively small aircraft carrier with a flight deck for Harrior jets and helicopters. Sadly, she was decommissioned in Apr last year. Anyone interested in more info about her, click on [url="http://navysite.de/ships/lha2.htm"]LHA-2[/url]. [/QUOTE]

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