Crystal Jewel was involved in a bad day in 1961
To quote from Sugar Line website
23rd September 1961.
In dense fog, there were three collisons in the English Channel.
The CRYSTAL JEWEL and the BRITISH AVIATOR collided en route Rotterdam Hastings. One person was killed, as a result of the accident.
Sadly this I think was the Captain's wife.
North of Cherbourg the British freighter NICETO DE LARRINAGA
collides with the French tanker SITALA.
Several crew of the British ship were seriously injured.
Off Goodwin Sands, the Italian tanker AURELIA and the Norwegian motor ship FAGERHEIM collide. The ships received minimal damage.
As a postscript the Sugar line owners were unhappy about the outcome of the collision findings but in the end each ship was blamed equally.
To quote from Sugar Line website
23rd September 1961.
In dense fog, there were three collisons in the English Channel.
The CRYSTAL JEWEL and the BRITISH AVIATOR collided en route Rotterdam Hastings. One person was killed, as a result of the accident.
Sadly this I think was the Captain's wife.
North of Cherbourg the British freighter NICETO DE LARRINAGA
collides with the French tanker SITALA.
Several crew of the British ship were seriously injured.
Off Goodwin Sands, the Italian tanker AURELIA and the Norwegian motor ship FAGERHEIM collide. The ships received minimal damage.
As a postscript the Sugar line owners were unhappy about the outcome of the collision findings but in the end each ship was blamed equally.
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