COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The obligation commander of a Norwegian Navy frigate that sank following a collision with an oil tanker in 2018 was discovered responsible of negligence Monday by a Norwegian courtroom.
The unidentified officer was given a 60-day conditional sentence by the Hordaland district courtroom. He had denied the cost.
”He’s disillusioned with the end result,” the lawyer for the 33-year-old officer, Christian Lundin, informed Norwegian information company NTB.
NTB mentioned the officer had been on obligation for eight minutes on Nov. 8, 2018, when the 134-meter (442-foot) KNM Helge Ingstad collided with the Maltese-flagged oil tanker Sola TS, tearing a big gap within the frigate’s aspect in a harbor in Sture, north of Bergen.
The frigate’s 137 crew had been evacuated earlier than the vessel sank. Eight individuals had been barely injured.
The obligation commander was the one particular person prosecuted over the incident. The prosecution has claimed that negligent navigation was the primary purpose for the collision.
The officer had denied felony guilt however had acknowledged that he didn’t do every thing proper. Nevertheless, he felt it unfair to be held solely accountable for the shipwreck and mentioned that errors had been additionally had been made on the tanker and on the maritime visitors middle, which was accountable for visitors within the area.
The frigate has since been raised and scrapped because it was deemed too pricey to restore it. The tanker was solely slight broken within the collision.
In February 2022, Twitt Navigation Ltd, the proprietor of the tanker, agreed to pay 235 million kroner ($22 milllion) to the Norwegian state in a settlement regarding the collision.
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