WRECKED DESTROYERS
COMMANDER ACCEPTS BLAAIE. (•■Sydney Sun ’ Service.) NEW YORK, September 20. Captain Watson, commander of the wrecked destroyer squadron, accepts full responsibility for the disaster. He stated that if he had obeyed the directional wireless there would have been no wreck, but he could not believe the directions against the figures of his reckoning. He had to make a decision and took the chance. He thought he was right and the wireless wrong. ’The charted course was due south and provided a right angle turn to port. After the destroyers had passed Arguello lighthouse, he steamed a sufficient distance to take them several miles beyond; iust then he received directional wireless stating that the vessels were still north of Arguello, but he felt certain the wireless erred’ He had to make a decision and made ir wrmV. He gave the order to turn vgainst the shore.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1923, Page 5
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