THE GLENELG INQUIRY.
SK.NSATIOXAL EVIDENCE,
i MKI/BOURXE, this day. I At the inquiry inro the loss of the I Glenclg. Sinclair, who was boatswain | in 1599, deposed ihat when chipping- ! The vessel he saw holes in the plates. I The whole of the plates wore affected :by nisi. Jle told iiie captain the vessel ! was in a very had condition. The captain said: "Slap The paini on. I" suppose she will do our time." Jle added: "1 cannot ask For much better, I because she is not paying well." Wit- ! ness slapped the paint on, but it never dried. One of the plates was started in the forecastle hole big' enough to put a rivet through. The I forecastle was uninhabitable in bad I wenther. owning to "leakage, and the. , crew usually slept in their clothes for jfearpf plates going.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 103, 2 May 1900, Page 5
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