OFFICERS CENSURED.
STRANDING OF MOTOR-SHIP. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, May 31. At the Marine Court of Inquiry into the stranding of the Port Line motorship Port 'Saint John, which: went aground at Lady Elliot Island on May 5, the third officer, Robert Nichon, who was at the wheel at the time of the stranding, gave evidence that Captain William Lynd had, allowed a three degrees sot against the vessel for the southerly current. This in ordinary circumstances should have kept the ship one and three-quarter miles eff the reef.
Witness said no allowance had been made for the Hood tide which happened to be very strong, and grew stronger as the ship neared the island. The Court found that the cause of the stranding was the setting of too fine a course without making proper allowance for tidal influences, resulting in the vessel being one and. a half miles off her course when Captain Lynd went to the bridge and accepted tlie third officer’s position of the ship. The captain’s actions merited censure. The Court also found the third officer guilty of careless navigation in not taking sufficient bearings to verify his position.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 196, 1 June 1938, Page 5
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