Sentence examples for naval accident from inspiring English sources

It was Russia's worst naval accident since torpedo explosions sank another nuclear-powered submarine, the Kursk, in the Barents Sea in 2000, killing all 118 crew aboard.

Feigning concern about hidden microphones, he turned my shortwave radio to full volume and, whispering in my ear, launched into an account of a Soviet naval accident in the Black Sea that he said had resulted in many casualties.

In parallel efforts to untangle Friday's naval accident off the coast of Hawaii, Navy and civilian investigators spent today debriefing crew members and reviewing logs from the Navy submarine that surfaced abruptly as part of a drill and caused the sinking of a Japanese fishing vessel.

Agreeing on rules to avoid naval accidents is another.

NEW DELHI — Indian naval divers on Wednesday afternoon opened the main hatchway of a stricken, Russian-made Indian submarine that caught fire, blew up and sank at dock earlier in the day in one of the worst naval accidents in Indian history.

Of those, 16 died from hostile fire, 4 from fire from their own side, and the others in aircraft crashes, naval or industrial accidents, or from nonhostile gunshot wounds.

And it could wreak havoc on the futures of its officers and crew members Since the accident, the naval community in Honolulu has been shaken by the loss of life, bewildered that such an accident could happen and angered by the global attention the incident has received.

However, at the British enquiry following the accident, Edward Wilding (chief naval architect for Harland and Wolff), calculating on the basis of the observed flooding of forward compartments forty minutes after the collision, testified that the area of the hull opened to the sea was "somewhere about 12 square feet".

Referring to the Kursk accident, Peter Huchthausen, a former United States naval intelligence official, said: "I'm surprised it hadn't happened earlier.

A reckless air pioneer, Wead was grounded in 1926 by a devastating domestic accident and became a writer of naval stories.

Russian officials have not determined what caused the accident that sank the Kursk during naval exercises in which all 118 seamen on board died.