How to judge wrongful punishment in a navy

Have naval personnel been wrongfully punished for actions they took?

Yes, while others have escaped deserved punishment, but every case requires comparing the original decision with the information available at the time.

A navy is a human organization, so its disciplinary decisions will be uneven. Some personnel have been punished unfairly, while others escaped punishment they deserved. Later evidence can make a historical decision look plainly wrong even when the original authorities acted on a narrower record. Each case must therefore separate hindsight from what commanders and courts could reasonably know at the time.