Captain Blamed
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MONROVIA, May 3. A Liberian Government commission of inquiry has placed the entire blame for the wreck of the oil tanker Torrey Canyon on the ship's Italian master, Captain Pastrengo Rugiati. In a report issued by the Government yesterday, the commission recommended that Captain Rugiati’s licence be revoked because “of his high degree of negligence and the gravity of the incident.” The 61,263-ton Liberian-reg-istered Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones Rocks off south-west England on March 18 and spewed out thousands of tons of oil which fouled beaches in England and France. The report said the Torrey Canyon affair was due solely to human error and not to defects of the vessel or to the understaffing or inexperience of the crew.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31360, 4 May 1967, Page 13
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