SYDNEY COLLISION.
SYDNEY, March 19. The Marine Court of Inquiry into the harbour collision between the Union Company . freighter and the Blue Star liner last week is unlikely to finish until the end of the week. Selwyn Capon, master of the Blue Star liner, in evidence, said the bright glare of the myriad lights in the Lima Parle sideshows adjoining the harbour bridge was a hindrance to navigation. He first saw the freighter alarmingly dose beneath the harbour bridge. Herbert Morson, master of the tug waiting for the freighter, said the latter’s course prior to the collision was normal, hut the Blue Star liner’s course was not normal, posihly due to the set of the tloodtide.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9
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116SYDNEY COLLISION. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 95, 20 March 1940, Page 9
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