SARAGOSSA INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 217, 10 September 1904, Page 4

SARAGOSSA INQUIRY.

CAPTAIN'S CERTIFICATE BUS- f BENDED. : ' ySi Te decision of the Court of Inquiry , into the wreck of the barque SayagQ>jjM at Mangaia resulted in the the certificate of the captain of the Saragossa for three months, and Mr'H being ordered to pay the cqsts of the. '- inquiry. . Ijffl The Court found that there been negligence in not allowing t<tr I discrepancy between the two chron<>.. r "meters, in not using the patent log or the hand log, in not allowing for set ot current, and in not having rounded the'; vessel when the weather conditions be-

came unfavourable when the vessel was ' tnown to be in proximity to the island. Mr Kettle remarked that the gallant conduct of the second officer, who volunteered to swim ashore with the line,' was worthy of high commendation.- Hie ' > olunteerhig to go ashore was the v -neana probably of saving the lives of, if not all, some* of the crew, while it appeared very probable that he would . be drowned in his endeavour to say the lives of bis shipmates. The Court placed his gallant conduct on record.'A

Wit regard to the death of the Bwfe|fs maker, Jones, the Court was unanimously of the opinion that it wae purely in accident, and that neither the ofl- -<? nor the crew weTe to blame ia..*§