The Nation - News from Jan. 27, 1985
Coast Guard officials in Portsmouth, Va., recommended that the captain and maintenance chief of the coal ship Marine Electric be prosecuted for violating safety regulations for two years before the vessel sank with 34 aboard. Thirty-one crewmen died in the February, 1983, accident when the collier broke up in the icy waters of the Atlantic. “The ship was poorly managed and horribly maintained,” the Coast Guard said.
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