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Title: Waterman Steamship Corporation Et Al. V.
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Release Date : January 24, 1969
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 80 KB

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DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge: On February 7, 1962, the S.S. CHICKASAW ran aground on Santa Rosa Island, off the coast of Southern California. The island
is 40 miles long and 400 feet high. The ship had left Yokohama for Los Angeles on January 27, 1962. No celestial fixes had
been obtained after noon on February 5, because of stormy weather. The crew took several fixes with the radio direction finder,
which had no recent compensation card, but obtained "wildly divergent" results. The vessel's mechanical sounding device had
been pried off the deck in Japan and sold for scrap. The fathometer was not used because Third Mate Jensen thought it was
inoperative. He had last tried to use it while the ship was on Japan's Inland Sea on December 25, 1961, when he obtained red
flashes all around the dial. He had told the master, Capt. Patronas, that the fathometer was inoperable, but the master did
not have it checked at the next port. And the radar was broken, having stopped operating just before the ship's arrival in
Japan. It had not been fixed because the repair company in Yokohama could not obtain the necessary part in Japan.

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