DEATH AT SEA
INQUEST ON MEMBER OF SHIP’S CREW When the overseas motor-ship Defoe arrived at Lyttelton yesterday morning she was flying her ensign and house-flag at half-mast, a member of the crew having died during the night while the ship was sailing from Wellington. The man who died was Alfred James McEneaney, a widower, aged 56, who lived with his married daughter in Liverpool. He had been in the ship for several years and was employed as a greaser-donkeyman. At an inquest held yesterday afternoon on board the ship, before Mr Rex C. Abernethy, Coroner, evidence was given by his shipmates that McEneaney had been in good health until about five days ago when he complained of being unwell and said he thought he had gastritis. He did not report sick. After Dr. P. A. M. Heath had given evidence that he found no signs of any injury and that death must have occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning, the inquest was adjourned sine die, a post-mortem examination being ordered.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26093, 21 April 1950, Page 4
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