Dead Reckoning: The Pollux-Truxtun Disaster

(L-R) Retired navy parson Fred Crisafulli (brother of USS Truxtun victim Charles Carman Crisafulli), USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips, Commander Timothy R. Weber, Commanding Officer of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, Mayor Wayde Rowsell of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and USS Pollux survivor Hank Strauss at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.

(L-R, 1st row) Retired navy parson Fred Crisafulli (brother of USS Truxtun victim Charles Carman Crisafulli), USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips, Commander Timothy R. Weber, Commanding Officer of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, and Mayor Wayde Rowsell of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland with the crew of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at the commissioning ceremony at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.

U.S. Navy Commander Timothy Weber presents Mayor Wayde Rowsell of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland with an American flag that had been flown over the USS Truxtun. The gift was for the town's museum. Presentation took place during the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.

USS Pollux survivor Hank Strauss (L) and USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.

USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips and an unidentified granddaughter of another sailor from the disaster at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009

View of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103 at the dock in Charleston, South Carolina at the commissioning ceremony, 25 April, 2009.

USS Truxtun survivor Lanier Phillips (sitting) with his daughter Vonzia (left) and his daughter-in-law Tamara at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.

Judith Bulanowski Frank, daughter of Walter Charles Bulanowski, MM1c, one of the 140 survivors of the USS Pollux, Wayde Rowsell, Mayor of the town of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and Shawn Shelley, son of William Francis Shelley SF1c was one of the 46 survivors of USS Truxtun at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.