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Strangley, the captain continued to command the vessel until they were already stationed in the Aleutians.The Captain and probably the XO would have absolutely been relieved of command on the spot after the anchor incident on a normal mission. They probably would have been relived of command after the mission was over even if none of the other stuff had happened. The rest of the crew would have seen no repercussions except extra...extra hard training from the next Captain and XO.
Strangley, the captain continued to command the vessel until they were already stationed in the Aleutians.
Hilarious, but one question for WWII USN buffs - how long would the original crew have remained serving on that ship through its ill fated war?
No it wasn't the end of the Captains' career his only 'punishment' was as with the entire ship's crew, except for the torpedoman with hard labour, shore duty in Bermuda!
"Torpedoman Lawton Dawson, whose failure to remove the torpedo's primer had enabled it to fire at Iowa, was sentenced to hard labor, though President Roosevelt intervened in his case, as the incident had been an accident."
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