OFFICERS PUNISHED
SINKING OF STEAMER COURT APPORTIONS BLAME. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, October 22. Captain Aspluml, who went down with his ship, was, with two officers, found responsible for tho loss of seventy lives on the sinking of the old steamer San Juan on September 29. Robert Pnpenfuss, the third officer of the San Juan, was punished with the greatest severity within the power of tho inspectors, his ticket being cancelled for life. He committed three grave errors—first, he sent the shi" across the bows of the tanker Dodd, then he reversed the engines when 1m might have speeded out of danger, and : m the third place he failed to call the "antain till it was too late. Saunders, tho third offi--n of the Dodd, suffe—H of his c or a year for fnto soim-l the whistle and to reduce the -'wep of f'-e ■essel.—AoriraUfin P”e«s Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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148OFFICERS PUNISHED Evening Star, Issue 20313, 23 October 1929, Page 9
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