NOONGAH INQUIRY
Comment On Lifejackets (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, October 13. The freighter Noongah sank before the whistle to abandon ship had stopped sounding, a marine court of inquiry was told today. The vessel went down in heavy seas on August 25 off the north coast of New South Wales; only five of her crew of 26 survived. Mr J. O’Bryan, for the Department of Transport and Shipping, told Sir John Spicer, Chief Justice of the Commonwealth Industrial Court, who is presiding over the inquiry, that the lifejackets on the ship were "not the most modern.” Five lifejackets found on the New South Wales coast and lifeboat wreckage was all that now remained of the Noongah and its cargo, Mr O’Bryan said. The hearing is expected to continue for several day.s
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32119, 15 October 1969, Page 12
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