CAPTAIN CENSURED
WRECK OF SAROS ON THE AUSTRALIAN COAST PRAISE FOR SEAMANSHIP IN SAVING CREW (Received January 20, 5.5 pjn.) MELBOURNE, January 20. The Court of Marine Inquiry censured Captain John Aitken, master of the wrecked steamer Saros, for failure in his duty to take all reasonable precautions, and for making insufficient allowance in setting his course to counteract the effect of a current setting strongly towards the land. The Court, however, commended Captain Aitken for the manner in which he performed his duty after the ship stranded, and for his seamanship in saving all the exew I without mishap. The Court directed attention to the lack of wireless direction-finding i stations- on the Australian coast. [The coastal freighter Saros. of 3304 tons, bound from Geelong to Sydney. went ashore at Cape Everard. in a dense fog on Christmas night The crew, numbering about 40. was rescued by the freighter Burwah-I
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 11
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