SHIP ARRESTED

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 121, 16 February 1937, Page 9

SHIP ARRESTED

Union Company Claims £50,000 Damages

SEQUEL TO COLLISION

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received February 15,11.46 p.m.)

Melbourne, February 15.

The Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, owners of the Kakariki, to-day issued a High Court writ claiming from the owners of the Caradale £50,000 for damages alleged to have been occasioned by the recent collision between the two vessels, as a result of which the Kakariki was sunk. The Caradale was arrested to-day when, under the authority of the High Court, a sheriff's officer nailed a writ to the mast.

A Melbourne message published on Saturday stated that, claiming £15,000 damages for alleged negligence in navigation and control of the Kakariki, James Patrick and Co., Ltd., owners of the Caradale, have issued a writ against the Union Steam Ship Company arising out of the collision on January 29. In the Marine Court finding at the inquiry into the collision between the Kakariki and the Caradale near Port Phillip. the court held the master of the Kakariki, Thomas William White, in default for failing to keep out of the way of the Caradale when, by his action in altering his course to port, the Kakariki became the crowding ship with the Caradale on her starboard bow. Captain White thus committed breaches of Clauses 19 and 22 respectively of the Navigation Collision Regulation. The Court, however, found that Captain White was not guilty of a gross act of misconduct. It added that had both ships kept their respective courses they would have cleared each other port side to port side, but the Kakariki altered her course to port, making a collision inevitable.