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  Timeline: Karl Lilgert and the Queen of the North sinking

  Navigating officer Karl Lilgert has been convicted of criminal negligence for his role in the sinking of the Queen of the North.

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  Queen of the North crew member guilty of criminal negligence

  Karl Lilgert has been found guilty of criminal negligence causing death for his role in the Queen of the North disaster. The ferry struck Gil Island on British Columbia’s northern coast and sank on March 22, 2006, killing two passengers.

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  Jury begins deliberation in B.C. ferry crash trial

  Karl Lilgert's future will largely depend on whether a jury believes his account of what happened the night the Queen of the North passenger ferry struck an island and sank or a piece of equipment that was retrieved from the ship's wreckage hundreds of metres below the ocean surface.

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  Affair doesn't mean accused is guilty: judge to jury at ferry-sinking trial

  The trial into the sinking of the Queen of the North passenger ferry revealed intimate details of a sexual relationship between the ship's navigating officer and another crew member, but the judge hearing the case warned a jury Monday not to use the illicit affair to jump to conclusions.

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  Crew member on trial for B.C. ferry sinking a liar: Crown

  The only two people who know what really happened on the bridge of the doomed Queen of the North passenger ferry in the minutes before it struck a remote island off British Columbia are liars who colluded to fabricate a story to cover up what really happened, a prosecutor told a jury Friday.

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  Crown accuses ferry officer of concocting evidence about sinking of B.C. ferry

  The prosecution has accused the officer in charge on the bridge the night a B.C. ferry sank of concocting his testimony.

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  Man at helm before B.C. ferry sank says he should have taken over autopilot

  The man at the helm of the B.C. ferry the night it sank told the jury at his criminal negligence trial that he should have taken the boat off of autopilot himself instead relying on the only other person on the bridge.

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  Accused crew member explains why B.C. ferry missed turn, collided with island

  As the Queen of the North sailed into the darkness down British Columbia's Inside Passage seven years ago, the ship's navigating officer says there was nothing happening that caused him any concern.

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  'Catastrophic dereliction' of duty in B.C. ferry sinking: expert mariner

  The crew at the helm of an ill-fated B.C. ferry missed at least 12 minutes worth of crucial checks, something an expert mariner told a criminal negligence causing death trial was a "catastrophic dereliction" of duty.

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  Unclear if anyone searched for missing couple as B.C. ferry sank, court hears

  The chief steward of the Queen of the North, whose staff was tasked with ensuring no one was left behind as the ferry sank off the northern coast of British Columbia, told a jury Thursday she doesn't know if anyone searched the area where two missing passengers were believed to be staying.