SHIP’S LIFEBOATS “BEYOND REPAIR”
MASTER FINED £7O (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) ADELAIDE, June 19 The master of the 5150 tons cargo vessel, Levernbank, Reginald Alfred Leach, was fined £7O today for failing to keep the ship’s lifeboats in seaworthy condition. He pleaded guilty to the charge. The prosecutor told the Court that two of the ship’s lifeboats were condemned in a surveyor’s report as neither seaworthy nor watertight. One boat was so affected by dry rot that the surveyor could dig a hole 7in deep with a pocketknife.
A contractor had said that the boats were “beyond repair.”
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27999, 20 June 1956, Page 5
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