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Thanks much Stacy,

Here is the other half of the story in criptic form.

Joel

 LST 1194 SINKEX

            LST 1194 ran aground during a UNITAS cruise off Chile in 2000
and was stricken from the Navy List on 17 November 2000 due to the
irreparable nature of her damage. in June 2001 she was towed to sea and sunk
as a target during a SINKEX (Sink Exercise) in June 2001. These photos show
the series of weapons fire it took to sink the ship.

            LMC before GUNEX
            TICODEROGA Battlegroup
            USS O'BRIEN
            GUNEX 01 : First hit from MK 45 5 inch gun
            GUNEX 02 : Second hit from MK 45 gun
            Hit and miss : A hit and a miss from the gun
            HARPOONEX 01 : Ticonderoga fires a Harpoon anti-ship missile
            HARPOONEX 02 : The Harpoon strikes its target
            TORPEX 01 : First torpedo hit
            TORPEX 02 : First torpedo hit (continued)
            TORPEX 03 : Severe damage to the keel
            TORPEX 04 : Second torpedo hit
            TORPEX 05 : Second torpedo hit (continued)
            TORPEX 06 : Stern is starting to come out of the water
            TORPEX 07 : Third torpedo hit
            TORPEX 08 : The ship begins to capsize and go down by the bow
            TORPEX 09 : Going...
            TORPEX 10 : Going...
            TORPEX 11 : Going...
            TORPEX 12 : Gone.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stacy Hanna" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: Latitude AND Longitude by Noon Sun


> The USS LaMoure County while engaged in a pre-dawn training amphibious
> assault in a low visibility situation off the coast of Chile during a
> UNITAS deployment. While approaching the anchorage, they navigated with
> GPS only on Chilean charts that used a local datum without taking into
> account the datum shift. As a result the ship ran aground on the rocky
> coast with damage that caused the decommissioning of the ship. The datum
> shift was later determined to be 1500m.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Navigation Mailing List
> [mailto:NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM] On Behalf Of Jared Sherman
> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 13:51
> To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
> Subject: Re: Latitude AND Longitude by Noon Sun
>
> Joel?
>   of Chile by relying solely on GPS.>
>
> I found nothing on Google but must believe that is a gross
> oversimplification. First, there are no reefs in GPS, so they must have
> also been relying on charting of some kind. And then, the odds are they
> were using the one or the other or both improperly. One must also rely
> on the navigator/operator as much as the tools, and I'd bet the problem
> was operator error--not GPS itself. Error that would have been repeated
> with any other tool: LORAN, sextant, rod and chain, whatever.
>
> But I'd certainly be interested if you could turn up details.

   

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