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The Fully Automatic Radar Plotter in the Context of Some Past Collisions—II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

Extract

Captain Wylie reviews a further selection of collision cases in which more information might have been available on the bridge had the vessels concerned been equipped with modern automatic radar plotting equipment. The first five cases and introduction were published in the May 1977 issue of the Journal.

Case 6: Sitala and Niceto de Larrinaga, in fog in the English Channel at 19·32 on 23 September 1961. Admiralty Court, London, 1963; Mr. Justice Hewson found Niceto de Larrinaga 60 per cent to blame and Sitala 40 per cent (1963) 1 LR 205.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1977

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