FINE AFTER 5 YEARS
DOUGLAS TRAGEDY RECALLED | HELSINGFORS., Marell 20. The collision at sea which cost the life of the famous England and Essex cricketer, J. W. H. T. Douglas, and his father, among other English victims, has now—five years after—led- to punishment for the captains of the two passenger steamers involved. They were the Oberon and Arcturus. They collided in the Cattegat, the entrance to the Baltic, duiing a thick fog on Dec. 19. 1930 The Oberon sank with great loss of llfe ' ... . Survivors of the tragedy stated that T W. H. T. Douglas lost his life by running below in an effort to bring his aged father on deck. Otherwise he would most probably have been <4 fl V P tl The captains of the two steamers, the brothers O. J. and R. E. Hje t have been put on probation for eight and six months respectively. They are further to pay certain indemnities, amounting to £440. —Reutei.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1936, Page 3
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