Engineers Tried for Hours to Restart the “Dead” Warship — Then the Admiral Called a Retired Sailor No One Remembered

at the steadily climbing RPM indicators, at the engineers who were watching him with the careful expressions of people waiting to see how someone responds to being comprehensively wrong.

His face moved through several things in rapid succession. Disbelief. Then the particular, visceral humiliation of a man who has made a public promise he would prefer continue reading …