Yea, running one of  'em aground is a big no-no for a captains career.

    --Dave

On 4/6/2012 3:34 PM, Ed Finnell wrote:
I came into work one morning and the office was staring out my window into
San Francisco Bay. The Carl Vincent had run aground trying to return to
it's  berth
at Alameda Naval Air Station. All the Crowley tugs were pushing and
pulling, but they finally had to wait for a 'high tide' about 36 hrs. Long story
short the Captain had ordered the pilot to proceed-during the court marshal
was  relieved of command. Hundreds of thousands to clean and recertify the
props and  impellers.


In a message dated 4/6/2012 3:25:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

It's  hard for me to imagine the navy allowing itself to get into a
situation  where the operation of the ship's main engines and steering
would be  completely


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