Norwegian officer found guilty of negligence over sinking of Navy frigate
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The duty commander of a Norwegian Navy frigate that sank following a collision with an oil tanker in 2018 was found guilty of negligence Monday by a Norwegian court.
The unidentified officer was given a 60-day conditional sentence by the Hordaland district court. He had denied the charge.
”He is disappointed with the outcome,” the lawyer for the 33-year-old officer, Christian Lundin, told Norwegian news agency NTB.
NTB said the officer had been on duty 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 large hole in the frigate’s side in a harbor in Sture, north of Bergen.
The frigate’s 137 crew were evacuated before the vessel sank. Eight people were slightly inju...