I have posted the Newsweek article that shows the Stoddert going down. Thanks to Jim Leathers for the scan.
www.usscochrane.com/images/Stoddert%20Newsweek1.jpg

MM2 83-85

Thanks John, I think I would smell a rat too if I were a Stoddart guy. The worse that could have happened is that she would have capsized and they could have sunk her then. To sit back and gleen that it "Looks like the Titanic," stupid. I think they should have kept her until it happened, and then let the Navy do the rest.

PS - Do the waves in the pictures look like 20 foot waves?

Edited by - Richard Cooper on 05/06/2001 13:11:39

Looks to me like someone who got a large screen TV couldn't tell one DDG from another.

FTG1(SW)DDG-21 80-84 NRFF-1091 USS Miller 85-87