On The Causes Of Accidents

"The vessel Baltic Star, registered in Panama, ran aground at full speed
 on the shore of an island in the Stockholm waters on account of thick fog. One
 of the boilers had broken down, the steering system reacted only slowly, the
 compass was maladjusted, the captain had gone down into the ship to telephone,
 the outlook man on the prow took a coffee break and the pilot had given an
 erroneous order in English to the sailor who was tending the rudder. The latter
 was hard of hearing and understood only Greek."

Extract from the protocol of a Swedish maritime tribunal,

reprinted in Le Monde, November 15, 1979 and translated into English.