CONCERNING SHIPS.
(To the Editor.) Sir,—Forty year* ago the largest steamer running was of ten thousand six hundred tons, not “16,000 tons,” as misprinted. It is hard to ree how “bad seamanship” could iave caused the loss of the Vestris. In such a case it is hard not to suspect lax inspection or bad ownership. Apart from the Lusitania, the Cunard Line has not lost one passenger’s 'life in 88 years, in liners of all sizes from 1100 to 52,000 tons—l am, etc., R. H. F. Havelock North, 30/11/28.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 7
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89CONCERNING SHIPS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 7
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