LOSS OF WYRALLAH

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 192, 9 May 1924, Page 6

LOSS OF WYRALLAH

CAPTAIN’S BREACH OF REGULATIONS

By Telegraph—Press Association. —COPYRIGHT.

Melbourne, May 8. The Commission of Inquiry regarding the Wyrallah-Dilkera collision on April 8, has issued its finding. The Court considered that the master of the Dilkera should have taken additional steps towards attempting to save the lives of those left on the Wyrallah, by throwing over lifebuoys with lights, and displaying the signals mentioned in tho navigation collision regulations. Tho Court found that the Jirimary cause of tho collision was tho action of the master of the Wyrallah in leaving his safe and proper course, and steering across the course of the Dilkera; and that the master of the Wyrallah committed a breach of the regulations. —Press Assn.

[The coastal steamers Dilkera and Wyrallah collided off Port Phillip Heads during a storm on the night of April 8, and the Wyrallah quickly foundered, with the result that six men were drowned. It was stated during the inquiry that the captain of the Dilkera said he would not lower a boat, as if ho did not look out the ship would go ashore. The Dilkera was not badly damaged.]