OVERLOADING OF LOST OIL TANKER
OWNERS ORDERED TO PAY £3400 PENALTIES SUGGESTED FOR SIMILAR OFFENCES LONDON, December 11. Finding that the loss of the oil tanker La Crescenta in the Pacifi: last year, with a crew of 29, was contributed to by the wrongful acts and defaults of the owners, the Crescent Navigation Company, Lord Merrivale (president of the Admiralty division) ordered the company to pay £3400 and costs, including £650 to the officers’ and seamen’s organisations. Lord Merrivale said that the La Crescenta was repeatedly overloaded m 1934 Her master had overloaded at the express bidding of the owners. He realised the peril, but his employment was precarious. The vessel had been overloaded on the last voyage, when the engines had failed and rendered the ship helpless. She inevitably sank in the precipitous seas. Lord Merrivale is drawing the attention of the Board of Trade to a revision of the Merchant Shipping Act, to provide penalties which could be promptly enforced for overload in g.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21655, 13 December 1935, Page 15
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