{"id":795,"date":"2015-02-28T00:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T00:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=795"},"modified":"2016-12-22T00:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T00:41:25","slug":"collision-between-uss-hartford-and-the-uss-new-orleans-march-20-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/collision-between-uss-hartford-and-the-uss-new-orleans-march-20-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision between USS Hartford and the USS New Orleans, March 20, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collision was a collision between the United States Navy Los Angeles-class submarine USS Hartford (SSN-768) and the United States Navy San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD-18) on March 20, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>It occurred in the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Musandam, an exclave of Oman. A US Navy investigation into the collision found that the the Hartford was solely to blame for the accident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Navy, the accident was caused by poor, lax leadership on the submarine and a failure to adequately prepare for and conduct the crossing of the Hormuz Strait by the sub&#8217;s crew. As a result, the skipper and several other officers and sailors from the sub&#8217;s crew were removed or disciplined.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/accidents\/Hartford.pdf\">NAVY Final Report on the Incident<\/a> [102 Pages, 4.2mb]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/accidents\/NAVYOrleansAdditional.pdf\">Additional Documents Released by the NAVY<\/a> [5 Pages, 1.26MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/accidents\/USSHartford2.pdf\">Ship Deck Logs<\/a> [10 Pages, 1MB]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background The USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collision was a collision between the United States Navy Los Angeles-class submarine USS Hartford (SSN-768) and the United States Navy San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD-18) on March 20, 2009. 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