Dead Reckoning: The Pollux-Truxtun Disaster

Wayde Rowsell (L), mayor of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, is with Gus Etchegary and his wife Kay at the christening ceremony for the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2 June 2007. Etchegary was a rescue participant in the Pollux and Truxtun disaster in February of 1942.

Lanier Phillips and Gus Etchegary at the christening ceremony for the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2 June 2007.

Wayde Rowsell (L), Gus Etchegary, Lanier Phillips and Fred Crisafulli at the christening ceremony for the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2 June 2007. In 2007 Wayde was the mayor of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Gus was a rescue participant in the Pollux and Truxtun disaster in February of 1942, Lanier is a survivor from the USS Truxtun and Fred's brother, Charles Carman Crisafulli, lost his life on the USS Truxtun on February 18, 1942.

USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips at the christening ceremony for the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2 June 2007. He is holding a hat from the Truxtun on which he served in 1942 and one from the new Truxtun DDG 103.