MARINE INQUIRY.
Captains' Stories of Collisfon
Conflict. PORT PHILLIP MISHAP. (Received 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Conflicting evidence about the whistle signals given by the Union Steam Ship Company's ship Kakariki, which was sunk as the result of a collision with the Patrick Line steamer Caradale on January in Port Phill%> Harbour, was submitted by the masters of the respective vessels at the Marine Court of Inquiry. Captain Hansen, the master of the Caradale, said the Kakariki, sounded only one blast of the whistle, indicating that the ship was turning to starboard, while the master of the Kakariki, Captain White, declared that he gave, two blasts as a warning that he was turning to port. Captain Hansen said he had no man on the look-out. He saw the Kakariki dodging all the time. She was the meeting ship, and it was her duty to keep out of the way. Captain White said the Caradale took no notice of his first two whistle blasts. Consequently he sounded two more, to which no reply was received. He could see that a collision was inevitable, and ordered the engines hard astern when the Caradale was still a length of the ship away. The inquiry is proceeding.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7
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203MARINE INQUIRY. Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 7
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