PILOT'S MISTAKE.
OLD STEERING ORDER. FATAL RIVER COLLISION. The fact that there was no look-out. man, and that the pilot in charge of a fish cutter gave an old steering order instead of the new one were stated at a resumed inquest, at Deptford recently to have been responsible for the fatal collision in the Thames between, the fish cutter Vigilant IT. and the barge Thistle on February 7, Charles Haywood, aged 15, an apprentice marine engineer, of Barking, was drowned when the barge sank. Alfred Foots, the boatswain of the cutter, said that when the pilot saw the barge he gave the order, "Hard aport; full speed astern." Under the new shipping laws "hard aport" meant turn to the left, whereas it had previously meant turn to. the right. The pilot wanted the vessel turned to the right. James Roxberry, of Trinity House, Gravesend, the pilot, admitted this. "After being 35 years on the old orders," he said, "I gave the old rendering of the order and we went to port." It was the sudden excitement that made me do it." He added that he had told the look-out man lie could go to his dinner. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. k
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 153, 10 April 1933, Page 7
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