On the eve of a SEATO naval exercise dubbed “Sea Spirit,” Captain John P. Stevenson, skipper of the Australian aircraft carrier H.M.A.S. Melbourne, dined on board in Manila Bay with several allied ...
NIOBRARA — Vernon Cash was one of the 198 U.S.S. Frank E. Evans crewmen who survived the HMAS Melbourne/Evans collision on the morning of June 3, 1969. The Rancho, New Mexico, man remembers being ...