Defence statement filed
PA 'Blenheim Captain Don Jamison,] of. (Picton, has ' filed (a statement of defence inresponse to a writ fqi; damages filed against the Marlborough j Harbour Board and himself over the sinking of the) cruise liner Mikhail Lermontov, in February, 1986/. • |
Captain Jamison is 'Second] defendant in' a claim ! for more than $132,000 filed by 38 Australian: passengers who were (aboard the Soviet ship when ; it sank in the Marlborough Sounds two years ago. He I was 1 piloting the I liner at the time. '- ; ■ The (plaintiffs claim that
when the vessel sank in Port, Gore, after striking rocks at Cape Jackson, they (lost personal belongings,; including currency, clothing and jewellery, together worth $132(581. Tpe writ cited negligence as the cause of the accident and named the (harbour board as first defendant. /] .. |. |
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Press, 24 March 1988, Page 50
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