OWNERS BLAMED
LOSS OF 29 LIVES ON TANKER
(United Press Association—By Electrh Telegi aph—Copyright.)
LONDON, ecember 11. Finding that the hiss of the oil tanker, La Crescenta, in the Pad tic last year, with a crew of twenty-nine, was contributed to by wrongful acts and defaults of the owners of the Crescent Navigation Company, Lord Merrivale ordered it to pay £3400 with costs, including £650 to the officers’ and seamen’s organisations.
] Lord Merrivale said the La Croscenta was repeatedly overloaded in 1034. The master overloaded at the express bidding of the owners. He realised the peril, but his employment was precarious. The. vessel was overloaded on the last voyage, when the engines failed and rendered the ship helpless. She inevitably sank in precipitous seas.
| Lord Merrivale is drawing th e attention of the Board of Trade to the question of revision of the Merchant Shinning Act to provide penalties, which could be promptly enforced, for overloading.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19351214.2.22
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1935, Page 5
Word Count
156OWNERS BLAMED Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1935, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in