The World - News from Dec. 30, 1986

The captain of a British tanker that struck a rock and sank off Iceland with the loss of all 12 crewmen misjudged the ship’s position, the president of a board of inquiry said. The 2,600-ton Syneta crashed into 531-foot-high Skrudur rock, which is marked by a lighthouse, in good weather last week. Rescue efforts were delayed because the crew gave the wrong position. Earlier, the three-man marine court in the Icelandic fishing port of Eskifjordur was told that the Syneta had faulty radar and an inflatable life raft that could accommodate only six people.