DISMISSED HIS SHIP
LIEUTENANT OF THE VINDICTIVE RESULT OF BOMB EXPLOSION. (British Official Wildcat.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, August 16. (Received August 17, at 11,30 a.rn.) Lieutenant ■ Simon Borrett, of His Majesty’s ship Vindictive, was dismissed from his ship and severely reErimanded by a court martial at Chatam as the result of the explosion in the Vindictive at Chatham on. July 23, by which an engine room artificer was fatally injured and two stokers were hurt. He was found guilty of neglect of duty in allowing a fuse bomb to be supplied and sectioned without properly ascertaining whether it was safe or dangerous to be cut up.
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Evening Star, Issue 20256, 17 August 1929, Page 15
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107DISMISSED HIS SHIP Evening Star, Issue 20256, 17 August 1929, Page 15
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