Human error was also blamed for the collision between the American Export liner Constitution and the Norwegian freighter Jalanta just outside New York Harbor on March 1, 1959. Once again it was FULL SPEED AHEAD in dense fog. Captain James
i was with my Dad (and brother?) on an open boat fishing for cod out of Sheepshead Bay the day this happened. I remember the dense fog, and fog horns; and I remember my Dad calling me up from the boat's cabin to see the freighter without its bow. As far as I remember, we did not see the Constitution.
