NO SERIOUS CAUSE
DISCONTENT ON H M.S. ENDEAVOUR
REPORT TO COMMONS
NOT A "HELL SHIP"
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
(Received June 15, 10.20 a.m.)
LONDON, June 14
In the House of Commons, tlie Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare, said that only a brief telegraphic summary of the inquiry held at Auckland into the conditions on the survey ship H.M.S. Endeavour had been received.
No serious cause of discontent had
been revealed. The men were given liberty to make representations, and there had not been a single complaint of harsh treatment or unjust punishment. Therefore, there was no question of remission of sentences. The complaints of overcrowding would be examined when the full report arrived.
The ship's company resented the allegation that die Endeavour was a "hell ship."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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130NO SERIOUS CAUSE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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