The rest of the business will be written off to a misunderstanding, to engineering casualties and such.
Had the Oscar truly suffered an engineering casualty, she would not have been so quiet.
"Sounds like a massive engineering casualty to me."
But couple that with an engineering casualty, and the increasing tensions ashore, and I didn't like it.
Awful odd that the first major engineering casualty we have onboard our battle group submarine, they show up, don't you think?
The ship suffered an engineering casualty on 30 April and was towed to Charleston for repairs.
En route home a series of engineering casualties resulted in the loss of the use of her main engines.
"Because, Sir, Ram One has a major engineering casualty," she told him.
They would have to stop to make the repairs before the sub became a major engineering casualty.
On 15 April, engineering casualties and poor weather slowed her progress.