HARBOUR COLLISION

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 77, 11 January 1928, Page 6

HARBOUR COLLISION

JUDGE CAMPBELL'S FINDING. CRITICISM BY SHIPMASTERS. (Per Press SYDNEY, January 10. A meeting of twenty-live shipmasters at the Merchant Service Guild" adopted a resolution stating that Mr Justice Campbell's finding in connection with the Greycliffe disaster involved a physical impossibility, inasmuch as it was impossible for tha Tahiti to approach tlie Greycliffe from any direction from ten degrees to ninely degrees on the port quarter and to bring about an impact -,vith the Greyclifl'e with nay part of the Tahiti except bt-r stem. Shipmasters also expressed the opinion that if the collision was brought aout by the stem of the Tahiti striking the Greycliffe, at an angle of twenty degrees, as found by the Court, ic would not cause the Greycliffe to take up a position which would eventually and shortly afterwards allow tre Tahiti again to strike the Greycliffe at ar. angle of from forty-five to seventy degrees at a spot on the side of the Greycliffe forty feet ahead of the place where the Court held the first impact took place. The meeting also determined that the position should not be allowed to remain as it is, and further meetings i.re to be held.

HARBOUR REGULATIONS. CONDEMNED AS OBSOLETE. SYDNEY, January 10. At the inquest on the vctims of the Greycliffe disaster, Captain Hildebrand, first assistant harbourmaster, gave evidence chat the sailing directions for Sydney Harbour, which were issued by the State Navigation Department, were obsolete He preferred to rely on his awn local knowledge. He adaed that more often than, not sailing directions were not observed by outward-bound vessels. The Navigation Department was preparing new dilections.