THE HERALD-GAIRLOCH COLLISON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 125, 4 June 1885, Page 4

THE HERALD-GAIRLOCH COLLISON.

Nautical Inquiry. (Before H. G SethlrnUh, Esq ft v We continue our report from n__ After loaving tho Onehunga tl? vessel went •• easy ahead," lff?i*_? speed ahead," and finally ..,_„ hl* ahead." Just prior to the celli ßio ceived by tele gl aph the instructUa ~.„*!' speed astern." He was at tho threw. the time, and about 15 second? .*' from the giving of the order unti jfc* eel was going full speed aster i I ffl> the engines were at a dead stor, r *»* 5 minutes before tho order wa? el v/- a>t full-speed ahead again. Ha rliS to.» dock, but stuck to the engines notS0«> Cross-examined by Mr Hesketh •_.„__ occasion onco to remonstrate win,' n *MMI Savory upon his handling of the «. . pt ,*-ill Captain Savory justified him elf?. 6 ut ing out that the vessel was in Z7 _** the pilot. He was satisfied Sagfe*Savory's command of the vesaol P n At the request of Mr H.-t-Vi. «, Bach was 4 called. _*£"^tJ^»> he was foreman boiler-maker 0f,.-*1"' and Tinne's foundry _ 0 at .&■ had executed the necessary .«L- -18 the Gairloch after the fe described the nature of the i*_~ a•» considered that the stem of £_f* Be must have struck at an a___\ v^ the Gairloch obliquely. S °8 bo,r of Thomas Sparrow Carmichael _L mariner, deposed to making wnn-i near tho central buoy, off cL n d* tho Manukau Harbour, at dead low ' iv The soundings he got ranged from lm •' side the buoy to B_ftat JSSfigfc way from the buoy, and there was a » , gradation between the two point. g*"ar John Birmingham, lamp-trilmn.. beard the s.s. Herald, and OftSHftiS Newton, able seaman on the v__ . gave evidence. Captain iC'rtiT recalled, said: In passing ■» buoy was only about twenty %«? off. Tho Herald's green ]L t^ then visible. The Gairloch's ffi I" then ported. The vessel was half m between the two buoys before the t_2 buoy was visiole; the helm waa uorS. a little. This was done, seeing the Hen. H was keeping woll to windward.-C.,Z, then addressed tho Court, and fo__3 was deferred. '""prem