Naval officers charged
Z Press Assn—Copyright) NORFOLK (Virginia), March 16. The United States Navy has ordered court-martial trials of the captain of the U.S.S. Belknap and its officer-of-the-deck at the time the guided-missile cruiser collided with the air-craft-carrier John F. Kennedy in the Mediterranean on November 22 of last year.
Eight men died in the collision and 47 were injured. Repairs to the Belknap are expected to cost millions of dollars and take more than a year to complete. The Atlantic Fleet headquarters says that after a review of the evidence of an inquiry into the collision, Captain Walter Shafer, commanding officer of t u e Belknap. and Lieutenant Kenneth Knull, officer-of-the-deck, have been charged with suffering the loss of; United States military pro- i perty through neglect, and ! with permitting hazards to naval vessels.
Captain Shafer is also charged with dereliction of duty and violating Navy regulations.
The Belknap and the John F. Kennedy collided off Sicily w’hile the cruiser was dropping back to take its station for night-flight operations. Most of the Belknap’s superstructure was sheared off by the overhang of the carrier’s flight-deck.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34104, 17 March 1976, Page 21
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